lxc command not found

Introduction

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

lxc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxc: command not found

Solutions to lxc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lxc is provided by lxd-installer package.

lxd-installer is:

Installing this package in an image instead of the lxd snap allows it to be smaller whilst preserving the command line interface of the full server image.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxd-installer

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

You can also use apt command to install lxd-installer.

sudo apt -y install lxd-installer

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

sudo aptitude install lxd-installer

Summary

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