hostnamectl: command not found

Question

I am using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, when I try to run command hostnamectl I get error:

bash: hostnamectl: command not found

Which library shall I install to use hostnamectl ?

Solution 1

hostnamectl is provided by systemd-services package in Ubuntu 14.04. You need to install that package to get the command line utility

sudo apt-get install systemd-services

Solution 2

To find out which package a file is you can use apt- file:

sudo apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update

After using it it is as simple as :

ricardo@zeus:~$ apt-file search hostnamectl
cdist: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cdist/conf/type/__hostname/explorer/has_hostnamectl
systemd: /usr/bin/hostnamectl
systemd: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hostnamectl
systemd: /usr/share/man/man1/hostnamectl.1.gz
systemd: /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_hostnamectl

Once apt -file package tells you that the file is found , you just have to install it:

sudo apt-get install systemd

Comments

[Zanna]

on my system it appears to be provided by systemd. I'm not sure whether it's available to you without that (in 14.04 which doesn't use systemd)

[Anwar]

@SamirSabri You got hostnamectl in 14.04 by installing systemd?

[Samir Sabri]

no, but sudo apt-get install systemd-services installed it successfully

[Anwar]

@SamirSabri If that is the case, shouldn't you accept the answer that said you to do so? The accepted answer suggested you to install systemd but you installed systemd-services!!

[Samir Sabri]

Yea, you are right

[Samir Sabri]

I tried that, I got similar result, but when I run /usr/bin/hostnamectl I get: bash: /usr/bin/hostnamectl: No such file or directory

[Samir Sabri]

if I try to run ls /usr/bin I can't see hostnamectl , however, apt-file search hostnamectl will show systemd: /usr/bin/hostnamectl can you please exaplain?

[Neoniet]

Once apt -file package tells you that the file is found , you just have to install it: sudo apt- get install systemd

[Samir Sabri]

have you tried it? I got this error:# sudo hostnamectl set-hostname new_host_name Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

[Anwar]

@SamirSabri Yes. I used that in 16.04. The error seems like you have problem in dbus. You can ask a new question regarding this error.