etcdctl command not found

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

Introduction

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

etcdctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etcdctl: command not found

Solutions to etcdctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu etcdctl is provided by etcd-client package.

etcd-client is:

A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery. etcd is inspired by zookeeper and doozer, with a focus on:

  • Simple: curl’able user facing API (HTTP+JSON)
  • Secure: optional SSL client cert authentication
  • Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance
  • Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft

Etcd uses the Raft consensus algorithm to manage a highly-available replicated log.

This package contains the client binaries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install etcd-client

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

You can also use apt command to install etcd-client.

sudo apt -y install etcd-client

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

sudo aptitude install etcd-client

Summary

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