ceph-authtool command not found

Introduction

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

ceph-authtool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ceph-authtool: command not found

Solutions to ceph-authtool: command not found

How To Fix ceph-authtool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ceph-authtool is provided by ceph-common package.

ceph-common is:

Ceph is a distributed storage and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a collection of common tools that allow one to interact with and administer a Ceph cluster.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceph-common

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

You can also use apt command to install ceph-common.

sudo apt -y install ceph-common

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

sudo aptitude install ceph-common

Summary

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