pmt-ehd command not found

Introduction

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

pmt-ehd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pmt-ehd: command not found

Solutions to pmt-ehd: command not found

How To Fix pmt-ehd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pmt-ehd is provided by libpam-mount-bin package.

libpam-mount-bin is:

This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as (semi-)diskless stations where many users can login.

The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to make sure certain volumes are set up properly because often they need more than just a mount call, such as encrypted volumes. This includes SMB/CIFS, FUSE, dm-crypt and LUKS.

This package contains helper binaries

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpam-mount-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libpam-mount-bin.

sudo apt -y install libpam-mount-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libpam-mount-bin

Summary

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