perditiondb_mysql_makedb command not found

Introduction

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

perditiondb_mysql_makedb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perditiondb_mysql_makedb: command not found

Solutions to perditiondb_mysql_makedb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perditiondb_mysql_makedb is provided by perdition-mysql package.

perdition-mysql is:

Perdition allows for arbitrary user database access through shared libraries much in the manner of NSS in glibc. This package allows a user database stored in a MySQL database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install perdition-mysql

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

You can also use apt command to install perdition-mysql.

sudo apt -y install perdition-mysql

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

sudo aptitude install perdition-mysql

Summary

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