fcrackzip command not found

Introduction

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

fcrackzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fcrackzip: command not found

Solutions to fcrackzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fcrackzip is provided by fcrackzip package.

fcrackzip is:

fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results. It can also crack cpmask’ed images.

This package is useful for pentesters, ethical hackers and forensics experts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fcrackzip

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

You can also use apt command to install fcrackzip.

sudo apt -y install fcrackzip

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

sudo aptitude install fcrackzip

Summary

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