google_authorized_keys command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix google_authorized_keys command not found error message

Introduction

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

google_authorized_keys: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: google_authorized_keys: command not found

In Ubuntu google_authorized_keys is provided by google-compute-engine-oslogin package.

google-compute-engine-oslogin is:

Contains libraries, applications and configurations for using OS Login on Google Compute Engine Virtual Machine Instances.

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

sudo apt-get -y install google-compute-engine-oslogin

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

You can also use apt command to install google-compute-engine-oslogin.

sudo apt -y install google-compute-engine-oslogin

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

sudo aptitude install google-compute-engine-oslogin

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