swanctl command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix swanctl command not found error message

Introduction

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

swanctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: swanctl: command not found

In Ubuntu swanctl is provided by strongswan-swanctl package.

strongswan-swanctl is:

The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.

This package contains the swanctl interface, used to configure a running charon daemon

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

sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-swanctl

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

You can also use apt command to install strongswan-swanctl.

sudo apt -y install strongswan-swanctl

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

sudo aptitude install strongswan-swanctl

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