gss command not found

Introduction

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

gss: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gss: command not found

Solutions to gss: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gss is provided by libgss-dev package.

libgss-dev is:

The GNU Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) is a free implementation of the GSS-API security framework. GSSLib uses Shishi to implement the Kerberos V5 mechanism, but is flexible enough to support other mechanisms too.

This package contain files for developing programs with GSS support, including the header file and static library, and a tool to explain GSS-API error codes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgss-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libgss-dev.

sudo apt -y install libgss-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libgss-dev

Summary

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