kpropd command not found

Introduction

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

kpropd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kpropd: command not found

Solutions to kpropd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kpropd is provided by krb5-kpropd package.

krb5-kpropd is:

Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called “principals”).

This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5.

This package contains the Kerberos slave KDC update server (kpropd). The kpropd command runs on the slave KDC server. It listens for update requests made by the kprop program, and periodically requests incremental updates from the master KDC. This package should be installed on slave KDCs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install krb5-kpropd

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

You can also use apt command to install krb5-kpropd.

sudo apt -y install krb5-kpropd

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

sudo aptitude install krb5-kpropd

Summary

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