rtkitctl command not found

Introduction

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

rtkitctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rtkitctl: command not found

Solutions to rtkitctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rtkitctl is provided by rtkit package.

rtkit is:

RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user processes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rtkit

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

You can also use apt command to install rtkit.

sudo apt -y install rtkit

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

sudo aptitude install rtkit

Summary

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