docker-credential-pass command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix docker-credential-pass command not found error message

Introduction

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

docker-credential-pass: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: docker-credential-pass: command not found

In Ubuntu docker-credential-pass is provided by golang-docker-credential-helpers package.

golang-docker-credential-helpers is:

The docker-credential-helpers package is a suite of programs to use the built-in OS native stores to keep Docker credentials safe.

This package contains the command-line executables.

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

sudo apt-get -y install golang-docker-credential-helpers

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

You can also use apt command to install golang-docker-credential-helpers.

sudo apt -y install golang-docker-credential-helpers

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

sudo aptitude install golang-docker-credential-helpers

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