ssss-combine command not found

Introduction

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

ssss-combine: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssss-combine: command not found

Solutions to ssss-combine: command not found

How To Fix ssss-combine: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ssss-combine is provided by ssss package.

ssss is:

Implementation of Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme. The program suite does both: the generation of shares for a known secret, and the reconstruction of a secret using user-provided shares.

Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme allows a secret to be split in to shares. These shares can then be distributed to different people. When the time comes to retrieve the secret then a preset number of the shares need to be combined. The number of shares created, and the number needed to retrieve the secret are set at splitting time. The number of shares required to re-create the secret can be chosen to be less that the number of shares created, so any large enough subset of the shares can retrieve the secret.

This scheme allows a secret to be shared, either to reduce the chances that the secret is lost, or to increase the number of parties that must cooperate to reveal the secret.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssss

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

You can also use apt command to install ssss.

sudo apt -y install ssss

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

sudo aptitude install ssss

Summary

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