systemd-notify command not found

Introduction

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

systemd-notify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: systemd-notify: command not found

Solutions to systemd-notify: command not found

How To Fix systemd-notify: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu systemd-notify is provided by systemd package.

systemd is:

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.

systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.

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

sudo apt-get -y install systemd

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

You can also use apt command to install systemd.

sudo apt -y install systemd

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

sudo aptitude install systemd

Summary

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