mech-dump command not found

Introduction

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

mech-dump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mech-dump: command not found

Solutions to mech-dump: command not found

How To Fix mech-dump: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mech-dump is provided by libwww-mechanize-perl package.

libwww-mechanize-perl is:

WWW::Mechanize, or Mech for short, helps you automate interaction with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form can be selected, form fields can be filled and the next page can be fetched. Mech also stores a history of the URLs you’ve visited, which can be queried and revisited.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwww-mechanize-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwww-mechanize-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwww-mechanize-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwww-mechanize-perl

Summary

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