ssh-contact command not found

Introduction

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

ssh-contact: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssh-contact: command not found

Solutions to ssh-contact: command not found

How To Fix ssh-contact: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ssh-contact is provided by ssh-contact-client package.

ssh-contact-client is:

SSH-Contact is a client/service tool that makes easy to connect your telepathy IM contacts via SSH. No need to care about dynamic IP, NAT, port forwarding or firewalls anymore; if you can chat with a friend, you can also SSH him.

This package contains the client side of ssh-contact.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssh-contact-client

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

You can also use apt command to install ssh-contact-client.

sudo apt -y install ssh-contact-client

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

sudo aptitude install ssh-contact-client

Summary

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