groupmanage command not found

Introduction

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

groupmanage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: groupmanage: command not found

Solutions to groupmanage: command not found

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

In Ubuntu groupmanage is provided by userv-utils package.

userv-utils is:

Several small userv services, which allow certain system configuration actions to be delegated. In each case the service is disabled unless enabled by symlink /etc/userv/services.d/* -> ../services-available/*.

ipif - allow non-root users to create network interfaces ucgi - run CGI programs in providing user’s account mailq - allow users to view the mail queue ndc-reload - allow certain users to reload the nameserver checkpasswd-* - allow users to run a UNIX password check groupmanage - allow users to create and manage a few groups each

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

sudo apt-get -y install userv-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install userv-utils.

sudo apt -y install userv-utils

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

sudo aptitude install userv-utils

Summary

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