sha1cdsum command not found

Introduction

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

sha1cdsum: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sha1cdsum: command not found

Solutions to sha1cdsum: command not found

How To Fix sha1cdsum: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sha1cdsum is provided by sha1cdsum package.

sha1cdsum is:

Print or check SHA1 checksums while defending against well-known collision attacks.

This program offers a drop-in replacement for coreutils’ sha1sum in most cases, but one that is not vulnerable to a specific, well-known cryptographic weakness in SHA1.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sha1cdsum

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

You can also use apt command to install sha1cdsum.

sudo apt -y install sha1cdsum

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

sudo aptitude install sha1cdsum

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sha1cdsum command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.