pkcs11-key-generation command not found

Introduction

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

pkcs11-key-generation: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pkcs11-key-generation: command not found

Solutions to pkcs11-key-generation: command not found

How To Fix pkcs11-key-generation: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pkcs11-key-generation is provided by python3-barbican package.

python3-barbican is:

The Barbican project provides services for secure storage, provisioning and management of sensitive client secret information such as encryption keys. It is aims at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains the Python 3 files and libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-barbican

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-barbican.

sudo apt -y install python3-barbican

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

sudo aptitude install python3-barbican

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pkcs11-key-generation command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.