wlancap2wpasec command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wlancap2wpasec command not found error message

Introduction

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

wlancap2wpasec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wlancap2wpasec: command not found

In Ubuntu wlancap2wpasec is provided by hcxtools package.

hcxtools is:

Portable solution for capturing wlan traffic and conversion to hashcat formats (recommended by hashcat) and to John the Ripper formats.

hcx stands for:

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

sudo apt-get -y install hcxtools

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

You can also use apt command to install hcxtools.

sudo apt -y install hcxtools

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

sudo aptitude install hcxtools

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wlancap2wpasec command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.