yarac command not found

Introduction

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

yarac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yarac: command not found

Solutions to yarac: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yarac is provided by yara package.

yara is:

YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA, it is possible to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples of those families. Each description consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determines its logic.

Complex and powerful rules can be created by using binary strings with wild-cards, case-insensitive text strings, special operators, regular expressions and many other features.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yara

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

You can also use apt command to install yara.

sudo apt -y install yara

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

sudo aptitude install yara

Summary

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