makedumpfile command not found

Introduction

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

makedumpfile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makedumpfile: command not found

Solutions to makedumpfile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makedumpfile is provided by makedumpfile package.

makedumpfile is:

This program is used to extract a subset of the memory available either via /dev/mem or /proc/vmcore (for crashdumps). It is used to get memory images without extra unneeded information (zero pages, userspace programs, etc).

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

sudo apt-get -y install makedumpfile

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

You can also use apt command to install makedumpfile.

sudo apt -y install makedumpfile

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

sudo aptitude install makedumpfile

Summary

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