nss-passwords command not found

Introduction

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

nss-passwords: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nss-passwords: command not found

Solutions to nss-passwords: command not found

How To Fix nss-passwords: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nss-passwords is provided by nss-passwords package.

nss-passwords is:

This program reads passwords from keyrings used by Mozilla products, such as Firefox and Thunderbird. It can run entirely in text mode.

This program works with SQLite-based keyrings (signons.sqlite) and JSON-based keyrings (logins.json), used in recent versions of Firefox. Text-based keyrings can be read with pwdecrypt, from libnss3-tools package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nss-passwords

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

You can also use apt command to install nss-passwords.

sudo apt -y install nss-passwords

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

sudo aptitude install nss-passwords

Summary

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