krb5-auth-dialog command not found

Introduction

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

krb5-auth-dialog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: krb5-auth-dialog: command not found

Solutions to krb5-auth-dialog: command not found

How To Fix krb5-auth-dialog: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu krb5-auth-dialog is provided by krb5-auth-dialog package.

krb5-auth-dialog is:

krb5-auth-dialog is a simple tray applet that monitors kerberos tickets. It pops up reminders when the ticket is about to expire. Tickets can be refreshed at any time by clicking on the tray icon. It can also operate in “classic mode” as a simple dialog without any trayicon.

It features ticket autorenewal and supports pkinit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install krb5-auth-dialog

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

You can also use apt command to install krb5-auth-dialog.

sudo apt -y install krb5-auth-dialog

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

sudo aptitude install krb5-auth-dialog

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix krb5-auth-dialog command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.