eswitchd command not found

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

Introduction

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

eswitchd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eswitchd: command not found

Solutions to eswitchd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eswitchd is provided by python3-networking-mlnx package.

python3-networking-mlnx is:

Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect “interfaces” from other OpenStack services (such as vNICs from Nova VMs). The Neutron API supports extensions to provide advanced network capabilities, including QoS, ACLs, and network monitoring.

This package provides the Python 2.7 files for the Mellanox plugin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-networking-mlnx

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-networking-mlnx.

sudo apt -y install python3-networking-mlnx

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

sudo aptitude install python3-networking-mlnx

Summary

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