recovermov command not found

Introduction

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

recovermov: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: recovermov: command not found

Solutions to recovermov: command not found

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

In Ubuntu recovermov is provided by recoverjpeg package.

recoverjpeg is:

recoverjpeg tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.

This package provides these executables: recoverjpeg, recovermov, remove-duplicates and sort-pictures. The remove-duplicates is useful to remove duplicate files found. sort-pictures can be used to sort pictures according to exif date.

This package acts as a carver (data carving) and is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install recoverjpeg

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

You can also use apt command to install recoverjpeg.

sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg

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

sudo aptitude install recoverjpeg

Summary

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