ekey-setkey command not found

Introduction

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

ekey-setkey: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ekey-setkey: command not found

Solutions to ekey-setkey: command not found

How To Fix ekey-setkey: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ekey-setkey is provided by ekeyd package.

ekeyd is:

This is a driver for the Simtec Electronics Entropy Key. It is only needed if you have such a device (or devices). It provides a daemon and tools to drive and control it, as well as options for injecting entropy directly into the kernel’s pool, or serving it via the EGD protocol.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ekeyd

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

You can also use apt command to install ekeyd.

sudo apt -y install ekeyd

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

sudo aptitude install ekeyd

Summary

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