targetclid command not found

Introduction

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

targetclid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: targetclid: command not found

Solutions to targetclid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu targetclid is provided by targetcli-fb package.

targetcli-fb is:

The targetcli-fb package is a command-line interface for configuring the LIO generic SCSI target, present in 3.x Linux kernel versions.

The targetcli-fb package is a fork of the “targetcli” code written by RisingTide Systems. The “-fb” differentiates between the original and this version. Please ensure to use either all “fb” versions of the targetcli components – targetcli, rtslib, and configshell, or stick with all non-fb versions, since they are no longer strictly compatible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install targetcli-fb

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

You can also use apt command to install targetcli-fb.

sudo apt -y install targetcli-fb

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

sudo aptitude install targetcli-fb

Summary

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