nwipe command not found

Introduction

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

nwipe: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nwipe: command not found

Solutions to nwipe: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nwipe is provided by nwipe package.

nwipe is:

Nwipe is a command that will securely erase disks using a variety of recognised methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN).

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

sudo apt-get -y install nwipe

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

You can also use apt command to install nwipe.

sudo apt -y install nwipe

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

sudo aptitude install nwipe

Summary

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