authpasswd command not found

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

Introduction

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

authpasswd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: authpasswd: command not found

In Ubuntu authpasswd is provided by courier-authdaemon package.

courier-authdaemon is:

This package contains the authentication daemon for the Courier applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install courier-authdaemon

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

You can also use apt command to install courier-authdaemon.

sudo apt -y install courier-authdaemon

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

sudo aptitude install courier-authdaemon

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