systemd-tmpfiles command not found

Introduction

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

systemd-tmpfiles: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: systemd-tmpfiles: command not found

Solutions to systemd-tmpfiles: command not found

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

In Ubuntu systemd-tmpfiles is provided by systemd-standalone-tmpfiles package.

systemd-standalone-tmpfiles is:

Standalone tmpfiles binary with minimal dependencies. This package conflicts with the main systemd package and is meant for use in non-systemd systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install systemd-standalone-tmpfiles

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

You can also use apt command to install systemd-standalone-tmpfiles.

sudo apt -y install systemd-standalone-tmpfiles

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

sudo aptitude install systemd-standalone-tmpfiles

Summary

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