daxctl command not found

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

Introduction

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

daxctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: daxctl: command not found

Solutions to daxctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu daxctl is provided by daxctl package.

daxctl is:

“DAX” are file system extensions to bypass the page cache and block layer to mmap persistent memory, from a PMEM block device, directly into a process address space.

This package contains a utility for managing the device DAX subsystem in the Linux kernel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install daxctl

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

You can also use apt command to install daxctl.

sudo apt -y install daxctl

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

sudo aptitude install daxctl

Summary

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