wdf-dump command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wdf-dump command not found error message

Introduction

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

wdf-dump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wdf-dump: command not found

Solutions to wdf-dump: command not found

How To Fix wdf-dump: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wdf-dump is provided by wit package.

wit is:

Wiimms ISO Tools is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. The toolset consists of the following tools:

wit (Wiimms ISO Tool): This is the main ISO manipulation tool : It can list, analyze, verify, convert, split, join, patch, mix, extract, compose, rename and compare Wii and GameCube discs. It can create and dump different other Wii file formats.

wwt (Wiimms WBFS Tool): This is the main WBFS manipulation tool (WBFS manager) : It can create, check, repair, verify and clone WBFS files and partitions. It can list, add, extract, remove, rename and recover ISO images as part of a WBFS.

wdf (Wiimms WDF Tool): wdf is a support tool for WDF, WIA and CISO archives. It convert (pack and unpack), compare and dump WDF, WIA (dump and cat only) and CISO archives. The default command depends on the program file name (see command descriptions). Usual names are wdf, unwdf, wdf-cat, wdf-cmp and wdf-dump (with or without minus signs). »wdf +CAT« replaces the old tool wdf-cat and »wdf +DUMP« the old tool wdf-dump.

wfuse (Wiimms FUSE Tool): Mount a Wii or GameCube image or a WBFS file or partition to a mount point using FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace). Use ‘wfuse –umount mountdir’ for unmounting.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wit

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

You can also use apt command to install wit.

sudo apt -y install wit

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

sudo aptitude install wit

Summary

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