targetctl command not found

Introduction

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

targetctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: targetctl: command not found

Solutions to targetctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu targetctl is provided by python3-rtslib-fb package.

python3-rtslib-fb is:

The rtslib-fb package is an object-based Python library for configuring the LIO generic SCSI target, present in 3.x Linux kernel versions.

The rtslib-fb package is a fork of the “rtslib” code written by RisingTide Systems. The “-fb” differentiates between the original and this version. 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.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rtslib-fb

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-rtslib-fb.

sudo apt -y install python3-rtslib-fb

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

sudo aptitude install python3-rtslib-fb

Summary

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