acpitool command not found

Introduction

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

acpitool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: acpitool: command not found

Solutions to acpitool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu acpitool is provided by acpitool package.

acpitool is:

AcpiTool is a Linux ACPI client. It’s a small command line application, intended to be a replacement for the apm tool. The primary target audience are laptop users, since these people are most interested in things like battery status, thermal status and the ability to suspend (sleep mode). The program simply accesses the /proc/acpi or /sysfs entries to get or set ACPI values. It also supports various extensions for Toshiba, Asus, and IBM Thinkpad laptops.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acpitool

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

You can also use apt command to install acpitool.

sudo apt -y install acpitool

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

sudo aptitude install acpitool

Summary

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