steghide command not found

Introduction

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

steghide: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: steghide: command not found

Solutions to steghide: command not found

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

In Ubuntu steghide is provided by steghide package.

steghide is:

Steghide is steganography program which hides bits of a data file in some of the least significant bits of another file in such a way that the existence of the data file is not visible and cannot be proven.

Steghide is designed to be portable and configurable and features hiding data in bmp, jpeg, wav and au files, blowfish encryption, MD5 hashing of passphrases to blowfish keys, and pseudo-random distribution of hidden bits in the container data.

Steghide is useful in digital forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install steghide

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

You can also use apt command to install steghide.

sudo apt -y install steghide

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

sudo aptitude install steghide

Summary

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