prelude-adduser command not found

Introduction

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

prelude-adduser: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prelude-adduser: command not found

Solutions to prelude-adduser: command not found

How To Fix prelude-adduser: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prelude-adduser is provided by prelude-utils package.

prelude-utils is:

The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing communication between the Prelude SIEM suite components. It provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager with transparent SSL, failover and replication support, asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking at the commandline, the configuration line, or wide configuration, available from the Manager), and a generic plugin API. It allows you to easily turn your favorite security program into a Prelude sensor.

This package contains the Prelude shared library utils.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prelude-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install prelude-utils.

sudo apt -y install prelude-utils

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

sudo aptitude install prelude-utils

Summary

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