kamctl command not found

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

Introduction

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

kamctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kamctl: command not found

Solutions to kamctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kamctl is provided by kamailio package.

kamailio is:

Kamailio is a very fast and flexible SIP (RFC3261) server. Written entirely in C, kamailio can handle thousands requests per second even on low-budget hardware. It can be configured to act as a SIP proxy, application server, session border controller, or call load balancer to handle a set of media servers.

A C Shell like scripting language provides full control over the server’s behaviour. It’s easy to integrate Kamailio with 3rd party API’s and applications using HTTP, AMQP, database drivers, LDAP, Radius and many other solutions. In addition there is support for scripting using Lua, Python, Perl, Java and a set of other languages using Mono.

Kamailio’s modular architecture allows only required functionality to be loaded. There are over 100 modules available: WebSockets for WebRTC, authentication, multiple databases - both traditional SQL databases as well as no-SQL, message bus systems like Rabbit MQ, instant messaging, a presence agent, integration with REST-ful APIs using HTTP and JSON or XML, radius authentication, record routing, an SMS gateway, a XMPP/jabber gateway, a transaction and dialog module, OSP module, statistics support, registrar and user location services, SNMP, SIMPLE Presence and much more.

This package contains the main Kamailio binary along with the principal modules and support binaries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kamailio

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

You can also use apt command to install kamailio.

sudo apt -y install kamailio

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

sudo aptitude install kamailio

Summary

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