dropbear command not found

Introduction

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

dropbear: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dropbear: command not found

Solutions to dropbear: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dropbear is provided by dropbear-bin package.

dropbear-bin is:

dropbear is a SSH 2 server and client designed to be small enough to be used in small memory environments, while still being functional and secure enough for general use.

It implements most required features of the SSH 2 protocol, and other features such as authentication agent forwarding.

This package provides dropbear, dbclient, dropbearkey and dropbearconvert.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dropbear-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install dropbear-bin.

sudo apt -y install dropbear-bin

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

sudo aptitude install dropbear-bin

Summary

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