netlabelctl command not found

Introduction

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

netlabelctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: netlabelctl: command not found

Solutions to netlabelctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu netlabelctl is provided by netlabel-tools package.

netlabel-tools is:

The NetLabel management utility, netlabelctl, is a command line program designed to allow system administrators to configure the NetLabel system in the kernel.

This package requires that the running kernel supports NETLABEL.

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

sudo apt-get -y install netlabel-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install netlabel-tools.

sudo apt -y install netlabel-tools

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

sudo aptitude install netlabel-tools

Summary

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