battery-log command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix battery-log command not found error message

Introduction

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

battery-log: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: battery-log: command not found

In Ubuntu battery-log is provided by battery-stats package.

battery-stats is:

This package provides battery-stats-collector, a daemon which will periodically collect statistics about the charge of the batteries present.

It also provides a binary called battery-graph, which can be used to generate qplot graphs about the battery charge/discharge patterns over time.

Note: This requires APM or ACPI to be enabled and working in your kernel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install battery-stats

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

You can also use apt command to install battery-stats.

sudo apt -y install battery-stats

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

sudo aptitude install battery-stats

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