xorriso-dd-target command not found

Introduction

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

xorriso-dd-target: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xorriso-dd-target: command not found

Solutions to xorriso-dd-target: command not found

How To Fix xorriso-dd-target: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xorriso-dd-target is provided by xorriso-dd-target package.

xorriso-dd-target is:

xorriso-dd-target is a command-line tool to evaluate block devices of the Linux kernel whether they are suitable targets for a disk image file and to optionally copy the image file to one of them. It is specialized on the device names of the Linux kernel and uses the capabilities of util-linux program lsblk. Therefore it refuses to run on non-Linux kernels.

The main purpose of xorriso-dd-target is to inspect the device files of disk-like storage media and to judge whether they look like removable devices with disposable content. If a single plausible candidate is detected, then the program is willing to copy a disk image file onto it. This will overwrite or make inaccessible the previous partition table and all previous data content of the target device.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xorriso-dd-target

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

You can also use apt command to install xorriso-dd-target.

sudo apt -y install xorriso-dd-target

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

sudo aptitude install xorriso-dd-target

Summary

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