afs-newcell command not found

Introduction

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

afs-newcell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: afs-newcell: command not found

Solutions to afs-newcell: command not found

How To Fix afs-newcell: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu afs-newcell is provided by openafs-dbserver package.

openafs-dbserver is:

AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.

This package provides AFS database server binaries. It should be installed on the servers that will act as volume location and protection servers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openafs-dbserver

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

You can also use apt command to install openafs-dbserver.

sudo apt -y install openafs-dbserver

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

sudo aptitude install openafs-dbserver

Summary

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