paxctl command not found

Introduction

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

paxctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: paxctl: command not found

Solutions to paxctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu paxctl is provided by paxctl package.

paxctl is:

paxctl may be used to control PaX flags on a per-binary basis. PaX is a set of kernel security patches to enhance a system’s security. It is part of grsecurity (linux-patch-grsecurity2), among others.

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

sudo apt-get -y install paxctl

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

You can also use apt command to install paxctl.

sudo apt -y install paxctl

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

sudo aptitude install paxctl

Summary

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