perditiondb_postgresql_makedb command not found

Introduction

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

perditiondb_postgresql_makedb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perditiondb_postgresql_makedb: command not found

Solutions to perditiondb_postgresql_makedb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perditiondb_postgresql_makedb is provided by perdition-postgresql package.

perdition-postgresql 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 PostgreSQL database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install perdition-postgresql

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

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

sudo apt -y install perdition-postgresql

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

sudo aptitude install perdition-postgresql

Summary

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