netgroup command not found

Introduction

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

netgroup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netgroup: command not found

Solutions to netgroup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netgroup is provided by ng-utils package.

ng-utils is:

Includes tools to dump and look up hosts, users and domains from the netgroup database. The netgroup tool is used to list all members of a netgroup, while the innetgr tool is used to check if a given user/host is listed as a member of a netgroup.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ng-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install ng-utils.

sudo apt -y install ng-utils

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

sudo aptitude install ng-utils

Summary

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