ypbind command not found

Introduction

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

ypbind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ypbind: command not found

Solutions to ypbind: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ypbind is provided by ypbind-mt package.

ypbind-mt is:

This package provides the multi-threading version of ypbind, required to implement a NIS client service for shared accounts and network names.

NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file. It is an old, but simple system to share information, which should be used only in relatively trusted networks, due to its intrinsic limitations for security.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ypbind-mt

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

You can also use apt command to install ypbind-mt.

sudo apt -y install ypbind-mt

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

sudo aptitude install ypbind-mt

Summary

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