pure-pw command not found

Introduction

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

pure-pw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pure-pw: command not found

Solutions to pure-pw: command not found

How To Fix pure-pw: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pure-pw is provided by pure-ftpd-ldap package.

pure-ftpd-ldap is:

Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standards-conformant FTP server based upon Troll-FTPd. Features include chrooted home directories, virtual domains, built-in ’ls’, anti-warez system, configurable ports for passive downloads, FXP protocol, bandwidth throttling, ratios, fortune files, Apache-like log files, fast standalone mode, atomic uploads, text / HTML / XML real-time status report, virtual users, virtual quotas, privilege separation, SSL/TLS and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pure-ftpd-ldap

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

You can also use apt command to install pure-ftpd-ldap.

sudo apt -y install pure-ftpd-ldap

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

sudo aptitude install pure-ftpd-ldap

Summary

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