lchage command not found

Introduction

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

lchage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lchage: command not found

Solutions to lchage: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lchage is provided by libuser package.

libuser is:

The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources.

Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included: lchsh, lchfn, lid, lnewusers, lgroupadd, luseradd, lgroupdel, luserdel, lusermod, lgroupmod, lchage and lpasswd.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libuser

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

You can also use apt command to install libuser.

sudo apt -y install libuser

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

sudo aptitude install libuser

Summary

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