ssh-import-id command not found

Introduction

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

ssh-import-id: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssh-import-id: command not found

Solutions to ssh-import-id: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ssh-import-id is provided by ssh-import-id package.

ssh-import-id is:

This utility will securely contact a public keyserver (Launchpad.net by default, but Github.com is also supported), retrieve one or more user’s public keys, and append these to the current user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssh-import-id

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

You can also use apt command to install ssh-import-id.

sudo apt -y install ssh-import-id

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

sudo aptitude install ssh-import-id

Summary

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