seedd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix seedd command not found error message

Introduction

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

seedd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: seedd: command not found

In Ubuntu seedd is provided by bit-babbler package.

bit-babbler is:

This package provides supporting software for the BitBabbler true random number generator hardware. It includes:

The seedd daemon for running continuous quality and health checks on the active devices and the stream of entropy that they provide, and for seeding the OS kernel entropy pool on demand.
Monitoring tools for short and long term analysis, and alerting of anomalies in both the BitBabbler output and the kernel /dev/random and /dev/urandom output.
Admin tools for real-time inspection of the short and long term quality metrics.

You will need to install libjson-xs-perl if you wish to use the munin-node script for continuous graphing and monitoring of device performance.

You will need to install libvirt-clients if you want hotplug support for adding devices to libvirt managed virtual machines.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bit-babbler

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

You can also use apt command to install bit-babbler.

sudo apt -y install bit-babbler

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

sudo aptitude install bit-babbler

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