solid_auth command not found

Introduction

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

solid_auth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: solid_auth: command not found

Solutions to solid_auth: command not found

How To Fix solid_auth: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu solid_auth is provided by solid-auth package.

solid-auth is:

solid_auth is a command-line tool to perform low-level tasks authenticated against a Solid Pod.

Solid is a specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure personal web servers for data. When data is stored in someone’s Pod, they control which people and applications can access it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install solid-auth

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

You can also use apt command to install solid-auth.

sudo apt -y install solid-auth

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

sudo aptitude install solid-auth

Summary

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