shutdown command not found

Introduction

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

shutdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shutdown: command not found

Solutions to shutdown: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shutdown is provided by finit-sysv package.

finit-sysv 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 …”

This package provides /sbin/init, that boots your system and starts finit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install finit-sysv

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

You can also use apt command to install finit-sysv.

sudo apt -y install finit-sysv

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

sudo aptitude install finit-sysv

Summary

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