zxcvbn command not found

Introduction

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

zxcvbn: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zxcvbn: command not found

Solutions to zxcvbn: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zxcvbn is provided by python3-zxcvbn package.

python3-zxcvbn is:

This is a Python implementation of the library created by the team at Dropbox. Accepts user data to be added to the dictionaries that are tested against, gives a score to the password, provides feedback on the password and ways to improve it, returns time estimates on how long it would take to guess the password in different situations

This package provides the Python 3 library, and a zxcvbn binary providing a convenient wrapper.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-zxcvbn

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-zxcvbn.

sudo apt -y install python3-zxcvbn

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

sudo aptitude install python3-zxcvbn

Summary

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