timedatectl command not found

Introduction

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

timedatectl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: timedatectl: command not found

Solutions to timedatectl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu timedatectl is provided by systemd package.

systemd is:

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.

systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.

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

sudo apt-get -y install systemd

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

You can also use apt command to install systemd.

sudo apt -y install systemd

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

sudo aptitude install systemd

Summary

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