makegdbm command not found

Introduction

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

makegdbm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makegdbm: command not found

Solutions to makegdbm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makegdbm is provided by perdition package.

perdition is:

Perdition allows users to connect to a content-free POP3 or IMAP4 server that will redirect them to their real POP3 or IMAP4 server. This enables mail retrieval for a domain to be split across multiple backend servers on a per user basis. This can also be used to as a POP3 or IMAP4 proxy especially in firewall applications. Perdition supports arbitrary library based map access to determine the server for a user. POSIX Regular Expression, GDBM, Berkeley DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and LDAP libraries ship with the distribution.

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

sudo apt-get -y install perdition

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

You can also use apt command to install perdition.

sudo apt -y install perdition

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

sudo aptitude install perdition

Summary

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