nss_updatedb command not found

Introduction

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

nss_updatedb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nss_updatedb: command not found

Solutions to nss_updatedb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nss_updatedb is provided by nss-updatedb package.

nss-updatedb is:

This package contains a script, nss_updatedb, which can be used to maintain local caches of user and group directories. These can then be used by the DB Name Service Switch module (libnss-db) to provide name service when the system is offline.

These tools are designed to work with libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nss-updatedb

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

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

sudo apt -y install nss-updatedb

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

sudo aptitude install nss-updatedb

Summary

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