sha256deep command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
sha256deep: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: sha256deep: command not found
Solutions to sha256deep: command not found
How To Fix sha256deep: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu sha256deep is provided by hashdeep package.
hashdeep is:
hashdeep is a set of tools to compute MD5, SHA1, SHA256, tiger and whirlpool hashsums of arbitrary number of files recursively.
The main hashdeep features are:
- It can compare those hashsums with a list of known hashes;
- The tools can display those that match the list or those that does not match;
- It can display a time estimation when processing large files.
- It can do piecewise hashing (hash input files in arbitrary sized blocks).
This package is useful in forensics investigations.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install hashdeep
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install hashdeep.
sudo apt -y install hashdeep
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install hashdeep
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix sha256deep command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.