ophcrack command not found

Introduction

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

ophcrack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ophcrack: command not found

Solutions to ophcrack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ophcrack is provided by ophcrack package.

ophcrack is:

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.

It works for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.

This package contains ophcrack with QT4 based graphical UI. Please note that it can be used in command line as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ophcrack

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

You can also use apt command to install ophcrack.

sudo apt -y install ophcrack

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

sudo aptitude install ophcrack

Summary

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