wslcred command not found

Introduction

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

wslcred: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wslcred: command not found

Solutions to wslcred: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wslcred is provided by wsl package.

wsl is:

WSL (aka “whistle”) contains various scripts that serve as a client interface to WSMAN or Web Services for Management protocol base on DMTF standard specification. WSMAN provides standards based messaging for systems management CIM-style objects.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wsl

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

You can also use apt command to install wsl.

sudo apt -y install wsl

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

sudo aptitude install wsl

Summary

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