lxcfs command not found

Introduction

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

lxcfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxcfs: command not found

Solutions to lxcfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lxcfs is provided by lxcfs package.

lxcfs is:

LXCFS provides a FUSE based filesystem to improve the LXC experience within the containers.

This filesystem offers both a cgroupfs-like view for use by unprivileged containers which wouldn’t otherwise be allowed to mount cgroupfs. And a set of files that are meant to be bind-mounted over their /proc equivalent to make them cgroup-aware.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxcfs

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

You can also use apt command to install lxcfs.

sudo apt -y install lxcfs

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

sudo aptitude install lxcfs

Summary

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