digest-service command not found

Introduction

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

digest-service: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: digest-service: command not found

Solutions to digest-service: command not found

How To Fix digest-service: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu digest-service is provided by heimdal-kdc package.

heimdal-kdc is:

Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that aims to be compatible with MIT Kerberos.

This package includes the KDC (key distribution center) server, which is designed to run on a secure computer and keeps track of users’ passwords. This is done using the Kerberos protocol in such a way that the server computers do not need to know the passwords.

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

sudo apt-get -y install heimdal-kdc

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

You can also use apt command to install heimdal-kdc.

sudo apt -y install heimdal-kdc

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

sudo aptitude install heimdal-kdc

Summary

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