akeyconvert command not found

Introduction

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

akeyconvert: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: akeyconvert: command not found

Solutions to akeyconvert: command not found

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

In Ubuntu akeyconvert is provided by openafs-krb5 package.

openafs-krb5 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 aklog, a utility for authenticating to AFS using Kerberos 5. It also provides asetkey, a utility to set AFS server keys from a Kerberos keytab, and ka-forwarder, a utility to forward kaserver requests to a KDC using fakeka.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openafs-krb5

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

You can also use apt command to install openafs-krb5.

sudo apt -y install openafs-krb5

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

sudo aptitude install openafs-krb5

Summary

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