xmount command not found

Introduction

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

xmount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xmount: command not found

Solutions to xmount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xmount is provided by xmount package.

xmount is:

xmount can be used to boot forensic disk images with QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, VMware, or the like, since it supports virtual write access with redirection to a cache file.

xmount converts between multiple input and output disk image types on the fly, using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) to create a virtual file system representing the input image. The virtual representation can be in raw DD, DMG, VirtualBox VDI format, Microsoft VHD format, or VMware VMDK format; input images can be raw DD, EWF (Expert Witness Compression Format), or AFF (Advanced Forensic Format) files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmount

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

You can also use apt command to install xmount.

sudo apt -y install xmount

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

sudo aptitude install xmount

Summary

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