salt-api command not found

Introduction

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

salt-api: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: salt-api: command not found

Solutions to salt-api: command not found

How To Fix salt-api: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu salt-api is provided by salt-api package.

salt-api is:

a modular interface on top of Salt that can provide a variety of entry points into a running Salt system. It can start and manage multiple interfaces allowing a REST API to coexist with XMLRPC or even a Websocket API.

The Salt API system is used to expose the fundamental aspects of Salt control to external sources. salt-api acts as the bridge between Salt itself and REST, Websockets, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install salt-api

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

You can also use apt command to install salt-api.

sudo apt -y install salt-api

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

sudo aptitude install salt-api

Summary

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