voms-proxy-init3 command not found

Introduction

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

voms-proxy-init3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: voms-proxy-init3: command not found

Solutions to voms-proxy-init3: command not found

How To Fix voms-proxy-init3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu voms-proxy-init3 is provided by voms-clients-java package.

voms-clients-java is:

The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes.

This package provides the Java version of the command line clients for VOMS: voms-proxy-init, voms-proxy-destroy and voms-proxy-info.

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

sudo apt-get -y install voms-clients-java

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

You can also use apt command to install voms-clients-java.

sudo apt -y install voms-clients-java

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

sudo aptitude install voms-clients-java

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix voms-proxy-init3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.