memdump command not found

Introduction

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

memdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: memdump: command not found

Solutions to memdump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu memdump is provided by memdump package.

memdump is:

Program which dumps system memory to the standard output stream, skipping over holes in memory maps. By default, the program dumps the contents of physical memory.

This program will not work if CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is enabled in kernel. Since 2.6 version, several kernels are enabling this option by default.

memdump is useful in security tests and forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install memdump

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

You can also use apt command to install memdump.

sudo apt -y install memdump

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

sudo aptitude install memdump

Summary

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