ionit command not found

Introduction

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

ionit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ionit: command not found

Solutions to ionit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ionit is provided by ionit package.

ionit is:

ionit is a simple and small configuration templating tool. It collects a context and renders Jinja templates in a given directory. The context can be either static JSON or YAML files or dynamic Python files. Python files can also define functions passed through to the rendering.

ionit comes with an early boot one shot service that is executed before the networking service which allows one to generate configurations files for the networking and other services before they are started. In this regard, ionit can act as tiny stepbrother of cloud-init.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ionit

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

You can also use apt command to install ionit.

sudo apt -y install ionit

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

sudo aptitude install ionit

Summary

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