pollinate command not found

Introduction

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

pollinate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pollinate: command not found

Solutions to pollinate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pollinate is provided by pollinate package.

pollinate is:

This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service) servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random seed over HTTP or HTTPS. This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in virtual machines, to seed a system’s random number generator at genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script. It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding of the pseudo random number generator.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pollinate

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

You can also use apt command to install pollinate.

sudo apt -y install pollinate

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

sudo aptitude install pollinate

Summary

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