yubikey-totp command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix yubikey-totp command not found error message

Introduction

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

yubikey-totp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yubikey-totp: command not found

In Ubuntu yubikey-totp is provided by python-yubico-tools package.

python-yubico-tools is:

The YubiKey is a hardware authentication token. This package contains utilities for the YubiKey implemented using the python-yubico package.

This package currently includes the following utilities :

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-yubico-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install python-yubico-tools.

sudo apt -y install python-yubico-tools

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

sudo aptitude install python-yubico-tools

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