salt-key command not found

Introduction

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

salt-key: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: salt-key: command not found

Solutions to salt-key: command not found

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

In Ubuntu salt-key is provided by salt-master package.

salt-master is:

salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way.

It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.

Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.

Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.

This particular package provides the salt controller.

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

sudo apt-get -y install salt-master

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

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

sudo apt -y install salt-master

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

sudo aptitude install salt-master

Summary

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