hivexregedit command not found

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

Introduction

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

hivexregedit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hivexregedit: command not found

In Ubuntu hivexregedit is provided by libwin-hivex-perl package.

libwin-hivex-perl is:

Perl bindings for libhivex, a library for reading and writing Windows Registry “hive” binary files.

This package also contains hivexregedit, a low-level command-line tool for manipulating and dumping registry hives.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwin-hivex-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwin-hivex-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwin-hivex-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwin-hivex-perl

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