nslcd command not found

Introduction

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

nslcd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nslcd: command not found

Solutions to nslcd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nslcd is provided by nslcd package.

nslcd is:

This package provides a daemon for retrieving user accounts and similar system information from LDAP. It is used by the libnss-ldapd and libpam-ldapd packages but is not very useful by itself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nslcd

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

You can also use apt command to install nslcd.

sudo apt -y install nslcd

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

sudo aptitude install nslcd

Summary

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