wifi-menu command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix wifi-menu command not found error message

Introduction

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

wifi-menu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wifi-menu: command not found

Solutions to wifi-menu: command not found

How To Fix wifi-menu: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wifi-menu is provided by netctl package.

netctl is:

netctl is a CLI and profile-based network manager and an Arch project. It uses profiles to manage network connections and different modes of operation to start profiles automatically or manually on demand. It also provides special systemd services for automatically switching of profiles for wired and wireless connections.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netctl

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

You can also use apt command to install netctl.

sudo apt -y install netctl

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

sudo aptitude install netctl

Summary

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