setuid command not found

Introduction

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

setuid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: setuid: command not found

Solutions to setuid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu setuid is provided by super package.

super is:

Super allows specified users to execute scripts (or other commands) as if they were root; or it can set the uid and/or gid on a per-command basis before executing the command. It is intended to be a secure alternative to making scripts setuid root.

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

sudo apt-get -y install super

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

You can also use apt command to install super.

sudo apt -y install super

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

sudo aptitude install super

Summary

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