balloon command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix balloon command not found error message

Introduction

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

balloon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: balloon: command not found

In Ubuntu balloon is provided by balloon package.

balloon is:

This is a pure Go implementation of Balloon password hashing. See https://crypto.stanford.edu/balloon/ for a description of balloon hashing.

This package provides a CLI tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install balloon

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

You can also use apt command to install balloon.

sudo apt -y install balloon

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

sudo aptitude install balloon

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