ekeyd-egd-linux command not found

Introduction

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

ekeyd-egd-linux: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ekeyd-egd-linux: command not found

Solutions to ekeyd-egd-linux: command not found

How To Fix ekeyd-egd-linux: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ekeyd-egd-linux is provided by ekeyd-egd-linux package.

ekeyd-egd-linux is:

This utility reads from an EGD capable service over TCP and writes the entropy retrieved to the Linux kernel random pool. Typically this will be used on clusters or virtual hosts where direct access to useful entropy is hard.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ekeyd-egd-linux

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

You can also use apt command to install ekeyd-egd-linux.

sudo apt -y install ekeyd-egd-linux

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

sudo aptitude install ekeyd-egd-linux

Summary

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