secret-tool command not found

Introduction

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

secret-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: secret-tool: command not found

Solutions to secret-tool: command not found

How To Fix secret-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu secret-tool is provided by libsecret-tools package.

libsecret-tools is:

This package provides a command line tool using libsecret to access the freedesktop.org Secret Service API. This can be used to store and retrieve passwords for desktop applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsecret-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libsecret-tools.

sudo apt -y install libsecret-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libsecret-tools

Summary

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