container command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix container command not found error message

Introduction

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

container: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: container: command not found

Solutions to container: command not found

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

In Ubuntu container is provided by open-infrastructure-container-tools package.

open-infrastructure-container-tools is:

A Linux container is an operating-system-level virtualization environment for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single Linux control host.

container-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using systemd-nspawn.

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

sudo apt-get -y install open-infrastructure-container-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install open-infrastructure-container-tools.

sudo apt -y install open-infrastructure-container-tools

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

sudo aptitude install open-infrastructure-container-tools

Summary

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