selinux-config-enforcing command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix selinux-config-enforcing command not found error message

Introduction

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

selinux-config-enforcing: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: selinux-config-enforcing: command not found

In Ubuntu selinux-config-enforcing is provided by selinux-basics package.

selinux-basics is:

This package will pull in basic SELinux stuff to ease installation, as well as provide scripts and helpers to work around common problems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install selinux-basics

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

You can also use apt command to install selinux-basics.

sudo apt -y install selinux-basics

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

sudo aptitude install selinux-basics

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