perditiondb_ldap_makedb command not found

Introduction

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

perditiondb_ldap_makedb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perditiondb_ldap_makedb: command not found

Solutions to perditiondb_ldap_makedb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perditiondb_ldap_makedb is provided by perdition-ldap package.

perdition-ldap is:

Perdition allows for arbitrary user database access through shared libraries much in the manner of NSS in glibc. This package allows a user database to be sourced from LDAP

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

sudo apt-get -y install perdition-ldap

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

You can also use apt command to install perdition-ldap.

sudo apt -y install perdition-ldap

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

sudo aptitude install perdition-ldap

Summary

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