hexec command not found

Introduction

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

hexec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hexec: command not found

Solutions to hexec: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hexec is provided by hexec package.

hexec is:

hexec can be used to hook into exec system calls. It evaluates a user defined expression against all hooked exec calls. This expression can contain simple path checks (e.g. -path “*/name”) and even complex bash scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hexec

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

You can also use apt command to install hexec.

sudo apt -y install hexec

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

sudo aptitude install hexec

Summary

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