rabbitmqctl command not found

Introduction

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

rabbitmqctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rabbitmqctl: command not found

Solutions to rabbitmqctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rabbitmqctl is provided by rabbitmq-server package.

rabbitmq-server is:

RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is a robust and scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server

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

You can also use apt command to install rabbitmq-server.

sudo apt -y install rabbitmq-server

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

sudo aptitude install rabbitmq-server

Summary

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