mutt_ldap_query command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mutt_ldap_query command not found error message

Introduction

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

mutt_ldap_query: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mutt_ldap_query: command not found

Solutions to mutt_ldap_query: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mutt_ldap_query is provided by lbdb package.

lbdb is:

This package consists of a set of small tools, which collect mail addresses from several sources and offer these addresses to the mutt external query feature. At the moment the following modules are supported:

  • m_finger (uses the finger(1) command)
  • m_inmail (scans incoming mail for addresses)
  • m_passwd (searches /etc/passwd)
  • m_yppasswd (searches the YP password database)
  • m_nispasswd (searches the NIS password database)
  • m_getent (searches the configured password database)
  • m_pgp2, m_pgp5, m_gpg (searches your PGP or GnuPG keyrings)
  • m_fido (searches the Fidonet nodelist)
  • m_abook (uses the address book application abook(1))
  • m_goobook (uses goobook to read Google contacts)
  • m_addr_email (uses addr-email from the addressbook Tk program)
  • m_muttalias (searches your Mutt mail aliases)
  • m_pine (searches your Pine addressbook files)
  • m_wanderlust (search the WanderLust alias database)
  • m_palm (uses your Palm database; needs libpalm-perl package)
  • m_gnomecard (uses GnomeCard database files)
  • m_ldap (query some LDAP server)
  • m_evolution (search in the Evolution addressbook)
  • m_vcf (search in vcard files using libvformat)
  • m_khard (search a CardDAV address book via khard)
  • m_mu (search maidir-utils using mu-cfind)

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

sudo apt-get -y install lbdb

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

You can also use apt command to install lbdb.

sudo apt -y install lbdb

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

sudo aptitude install lbdb

Summary

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