gsasl command not found

Introduction

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

gsasl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gsasl: command not found

Solutions to gsasl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gsasl is provided by gsasl package.

gsasl is:

GNU SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer framework and a few common SASL mechanisms. SASL is used by network servers (e.g., IMAP, SMTP) to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.

This package contains the GNU SASL command line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gsasl

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

You can also use apt command to install gsasl.

sudo apt -y install gsasl

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

sudo aptitude install gsasl

Summary

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