oauth command not found

Introduction

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

oauth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: oauth: command not found

Solutions to oauth: command not found

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

In Ubuntu oauth is provided by ruby-oauth package.

ruby-oauth is:

This package is a ruby library providing OAuth consumer and provider.

OAuth is an open standard that allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their username and password.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-oauth

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-oauth.

sudo apt -y install ruby-oauth

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-oauth

Summary

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