whirlpooldeep command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix whirlpooldeep command not found error message

Introduction

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

whirlpooldeep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whirlpooldeep: command not found

Solutions to whirlpooldeep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu whirlpooldeep 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 whirlpooldeep command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.