fcheck command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fcheck command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

fcheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fcheck: command not found

Solutions to fcheck: command not found

How To Fix fcheck: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fcheck is provided by fcheck package.

fcheck is:

The fcheck utility is an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) which can be used to monitor changes to any given filesystem.

Essentially, fcheck has the ability to monitor directories, files or complete filesystems for any additions, deletions, and modifications. It is configurable to exclude active log files, and can be run as often as needed from the command line or cron making it extremely difficult to circumvent.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fcheck

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fcheck.

sudo apt -y install fcheck

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fcheck

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fcheck command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.