certipy command not found

Introduction

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

certipy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: certipy: command not found

Solutions to certipy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu certipy is provided by python3-certipy package.

python3-certipy is:

A simple python tool for creating certificate authorities and certificates on the fly.

Certipy was made to simplify the certificate creation process. To that end, Certipy exposes methods for creating and managing certificate authorities, certificates, signing and building trust bundles. Behind the scenes Certipy:

• Manages records of all certificates it creates
  • External certs can be imported and managed by Certipy
  • Maintains signing hierarchy
• Persists certificates to files with appropriate permissions

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-certipy

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-certipy.

sudo apt -y install python3-certipy

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

sudo aptitude install python3-certipy

Summary

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