shoelaces command not found

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

Introduction

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

shoelaces: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shoelaces: command not found

Solutions to shoelaces: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shoelaces is provided by shoelaces package.

shoelaces is:

Shoelaces provides a mechanism for automating the bootstrapping of servers. It serves iPXE boot scripts, cloud-init configurations and, actually, any kind of plain text files.

Shoelaces main features are:

  • automation of the boot script to serve for a given server based on its IP address or DNS PTR record.
  • usage of Go templates to serve the configurations, allowing the user to customize them with parameters received via GET request.
  • web UI to show the current configurations, and history of servers that booted.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shoelaces

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

You can also use apt command to install shoelaces.

sudo apt -y install shoelaces

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

sudo aptitude install shoelaces

Summary

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