keepassx command not found

Introduction

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

keepassx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: keepassx: command not found

Solutions to keepassx: command not found

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

In Ubuntu keepassx is provided by keepassx package.

keepassx is:

KeePassX is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the algorithms AES or Twofish.

In contrast to KeePassXC (package keepassxc), the development pace of KeePassX has slowed down. It has less features, and uses an outdated version of the Qt widget. If you do not know whether you should install keepassx or keepassxc, install keepassxc instead!

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

sudo apt-get -y install keepassx

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

You can also use apt command to install keepassx.

sudo apt -y install keepassx

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

sudo aptitude install keepassx

Summary

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