cgroups-mount command not found

Introduction

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

cgroups-mount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cgroups-mount: command not found

Solutions to cgroups-mount: command not found

How To Fix cgroups-mount: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cgroups-mount is provided by cgroup-lite package.

cgroup-lite is:

Control groups are a kernel mechanism for tracking and imposing limits on resource usage on groups of task.

This package installs an upstart job to set up cgroups when the system boots, without doing any cgroup management or doing any classification of tasks into cgroups.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cgroup-lite

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

You can also use apt command to install cgroup-lite.

sudo apt -y install cgroup-lite

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

sudo aptitude install cgroup-lite

Summary

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