softhsm2-util command not found

Introduction

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

softhsm2-util: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: softhsm2-util: command not found

Solutions to softhsm2-util: command not found

How To Fix softhsm2-util: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu softhsm2-util is provided by softhsm2 package.

softhsm2 is:

OpenDNSSEC is a complete DNSSEC zone signing system which is very easy to use with stability and security in mind. There are a lot of details in signing zone files with DNSSEC and OpenDNSSEC covers most of it.

SoftHSM 2 is a software implementation of a generic cryptographic device with a PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface.

This package contains command line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install softhsm2

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

You can also use apt command to install softhsm2.

sudo apt -y install softhsm2

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

sudo aptitude install softhsm2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix softhsm2-util command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.