tgtadm command not found

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

Introduction

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

tgtadm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tgtadm: command not found

Solutions to tgtadm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tgtadm is provided by tgt package.

tgt is:

The Linux target framework (tgt) allows a Linux system to provide SCSI devices (targets) over networked SCSI transports.

tgt consists of a user-space daemon and user-space tools currently supporting the following transports:

  • iSCSI (SCSI over IP)
  • iSER (iSCSI over RDMA, using Infiniband)

tgt also supports different storage types for use as backing stores for SCSI Logical Units:

  • Plain files and block devices
  • Ceph/RADOS RBD volumes
  • GlusterFS volumes

This package includes the daemon and user-space tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tgt

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

You can also use apt command to install tgt.

sudo apt -y install tgt

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

sudo aptitude install tgt

Summary

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