ods-signer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ods-signer command not found error message

Introduction

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

ods-signer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ods-signer: command not found

Solutions to ods-signer: command not found

How To Fix ods-signer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ods-signer is provided by opendnssec-signer package.

opendnssec-signer is:

OpenDNSSEC is a complete DNSSEC zone signing system which is very easy to use with stability and security in mind. There are a lot of details in signing zone files with DNSSEC and OpenDNSSEC covers most of it.

This package contains the OpenDNSSEC Signer Engine. The task of the signer engine is to schedule signing operation on DNS zones. Taking input from the KASP, it will automatically sign zones and keep their signatures up-to-date.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opendnssec-signer

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

You can also use apt command to install opendnssec-signer.

sudo apt -y install opendnssec-signer

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

sudo aptitude install opendnssec-signer

Summary

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