cpufreqd command not found

Introduction

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

cpufreqd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cpufreqd: command not found

Solutions to cpufreqd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cpufreqd is provided by cpufreqd package.

cpufreqd is:

cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can find on some other OS, it monitors the system status and selects the most appropriate CPU level. It is fully configurable and easily extensible through the many available plug-ins (more to come). Despite its name it can be used to control also the NForce2-Atxp1 voltage regulator and the core and memory clock for NVidia cards (see README.Debian).

You need a CPUFreq driver and either APM, ACPI (a recent version) or PMU enabled in your kernel in order for this daemon to work.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpufreqd

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

You can also use apt command to install cpufreqd.

sudo apt -y install cpufreqd

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

sudo aptitude install cpufreqd

Summary

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