gridftpd command not found

Introduction

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

gridftpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gridftpd: command not found

Solutions to gridftpd: command not found

How To Fix gridftpd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gridftpd is provided by nordugrid-arc-gridftpd package.

nordugrid-arc-gridftpd is:

NorduGrid is a collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the middleware, known as the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC).

This package contains the ARC gridftp server which can be used as a custom job submission interface in front of an ARC enabled computing cluster or as a low-level dedicated gridftp file server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nordugrid-arc-gridftpd

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

You can also use apt command to install nordugrid-arc-gridftpd.

sudo apt -y install nordugrid-arc-gridftpd

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

sudo aptitude install nordugrid-arc-gridftpd

Summary

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