scrounge-ntfs command not found

Introduction

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

scrounge-ntfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scrounge-ntfs: command not found

Solutions to scrounge-ntfs: command not found

How To Fix scrounge-ntfs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scrounge-ntfs is provided by scrounge-ntfs package.

scrounge-ntfs is:

Scrounge NTFS is a data recovery program for NTFS filesystems. It reads each block of the hard disk and try to rebuild the original filesystem tree into a directory.

This package is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scrounge-ntfs

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

You can also use apt command to install scrounge-ntfs.

sudo apt -y install scrounge-ntfs

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

sudo aptitude install scrounge-ntfs

Summary

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