pynslcd command not found

Introduction

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

pynslcd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pynslcd: command not found

Solutions to pynslcd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pynslcd is provided by pynslcd package.

pynslcd is:

This package provides a daemon for retrieving user accounts and similar system information from LDAP. It is used by the libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd packages but is not very useful by itself.

This is an alternative Python implementation of nslcd. Note that it is currently EXPERIMENTAL and has not undergone the same testing as nslcd.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pynslcd

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

You can also use apt command to install pynslcd.

sudo apt -y install pynslcd

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

sudo aptitude install pynslcd

Summary

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