ipa-getkeytab command not found

Introduction

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

ipa-getkeytab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipa-getkeytab: command not found

Solutions to ipa-getkeytab: command not found

How To Fix ipa-getkeytab: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ipa-getkeytab is provided by freeipa-client package.

freeipa-client is:

FreeIPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (machine, user, virtual machines, groups, authentication credentials), Policy (configuration settings, access control information) and Audit (events, logs, analysis thereof).

This is the client package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install freeipa-client

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

You can also use apt command to install freeipa-client.

sudo apt -y install freeipa-client

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

sudo aptitude install freeipa-client

Summary

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