bmc-watchdog command not found

Introduction

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

bmc-watchdog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bmc-watchdog: command not found

Solutions to bmc-watchdog: command not found

How To Fix bmc-watchdog: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bmc-watchdog is provided by freeipmi-bmc-watchdog package.

freeipmi-bmc-watchdog is:

FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.

This package contains a watchdog daemon for hardware BMC watchdogs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog

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

You can also use apt command to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog

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

sudo aptitude install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog

Summary

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