hivexsh command not found

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

Introduction

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

hivexsh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hivexsh: command not found

In Ubuntu hivexsh is provided by libhivex-bin package.

libhivex-bin is:

libhivex is a self-contained library for reading and writing Windows Registry “hive” binary files.

This package contains a few command line programs that utilize libhivex.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhivex-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libhivex-bin.

sudo apt -y install libhivex-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libhivex-bin

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