whirlpoolsum command not found

Introduction

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

whirlpoolsum: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whirlpoolsum: command not found

Solutions to whirlpoolsum: command not found

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

In Ubuntu whirlpoolsum is provided by libdigest-whirlpool-perl package.

libdigest-whirlpool-perl is:

Provides an interface to the WHIRLPOOL hash algorithm. This module subclasses Digest::base and can be used either directly or through the Digest meta-module. Using the latter is recommended.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdigest-whirlpool-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libdigest-whirlpool-perl.

sudo apt -y install libdigest-whirlpool-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libdigest-whirlpool-perl

Summary

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