git-secrets command not found

Introduction

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

git-secrets: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-secrets: command not found

Solutions to git-secrets: command not found

How To Fix git-secrets: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-secrets is provided by git-secrets package.

git-secrets is:

git-secrets scans commits, commit messages, and –no-ff merges to prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. If a commit, commit message, or any commit in a –no-ff merge history matches one of your configured prohibited regular expression patterns, then the commit is rejected.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-secrets

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

You can also use apt command to install git-secrets.

sudo apt -y install git-secrets

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

sudo aptitude install git-secrets

Summary

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