scalpel command not found

Introduction

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

scalpel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scalpel: command not found

Solutions to scalpel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scalpel is provided by scalpel package.

scalpel is:

scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer definitions and extracts matching files from a set of image files or raw device files.

scalpel is filesystem-independent and will carve files from FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, raw partitions, etc.

scalpel is a complete rewrite of the Foremost 0.69 file carver and is useful for both digital forensics investigations and file recovery.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scalpel

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

You can also use apt command to install scalpel.

sudo apt -y install scalpel

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

sudo aptitude install scalpel

Summary

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