nscd command not found

Introduction

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

nscd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nscd: command not found

Solutions to nscd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nscd is provided by nscd package.

nscd is:

A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running programs and caches the results for the next query. You should install this package only if you use slow services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nscd

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

You can also use apt command to install nscd.

sudo apt -y install nscd

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

sudo aptitude install nscd

Summary

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