finit command not found

Introduction

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

finit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: finit: command not found

Solutions to finit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu finit is provided by finit package.

finit is:

Finit is a simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit ten years ago by Claudio Matsuoka - “gaps filled with frog DNA …”

Finit supports runlevels, process monitoring, and starting services on demand using the built-in inetd, or by triggering a condition. E.g., “don’t start this service until basic networking is available”, or “wait until syslogd has started”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install finit

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

You can also use apt command to install finit.

sudo apt -y install finit

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

sudo aptitude install finit

Summary

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