luksformat command not found

Introduction

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

luksformat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: luksformat: command not found

Solutions to luksformat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu luksformat is provided by cryptsetup package.

cryptsetup is:

Cryptsetup provides an interface for configuring encryption on block devices (such as /home or swap partitions), using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt. It features integrated Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) support.

Cryptsetup is backwards compatible with the on-disk format of cryptoloop, but also supports more secure formats. This package includes support for automatically configuring encrypted devices at boot time via the config file /etc/crypttab. Additional features are cryptoroot support through initramfs-tools and several supported ways to read a passphrase or key.

This package provides the cryptdisks_start and _stop wrappers, as well as luksformat.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cryptsetup

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

You can also use apt command to install cryptsetup.

sudo apt -y install cryptsetup

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

sudo aptitude install cryptsetup

Summary

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