preludedb-admin command not found

Introduction

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

preludedb-admin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: preludedb-admin: command not found

Solutions to preludedb-admin: command not found

How To Fix preludedb-admin: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu preludedb-admin is provided by preludedb-utils package.

preludedb-utils is:

The PreludeDB Library provides an abstraction layer upon the type and the format of the database used to store IDMEF alerts. It allows developers to use the Prelude IDMEF database easily and efficiently without worrying about SQL, and to access the database independently of the type/format of the database.

This package contains the Prelude shared library tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install preludedb-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install preludedb-utils

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

sudo aptitude install preludedb-utils

Summary

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