iauth command not found

Introduction

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

iauth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iauth: command not found

Solutions to iauth: command not found

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

In Ubuntu iauth is provided by ircd-irc2 package.

ircd-irc2 is:

This is the original Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon, allowing interactive character based communication between people connected to this server with IRC clients.

This version of ircd is mostly used on the IRCNet irc network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ircd-irc2

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

You can also use apt command to install ircd-irc2.

sudo apt -y install ircd-irc2

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

sudo aptitude install ircd-irc2

Summary

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