flowgrindd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix flowgrindd command not found error message

Introduction

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

flowgrindd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flowgrindd: command not found

Solutions to flowgrindd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flowgrindd is provided by flowgrind package.

flowgrind is:

Flowgrind is a TCP performance measurement tool similar to iperf and netperf to measure throughput and other metrics for TCP. In Flowgrind’s distributed architecture, the flowgrind controller is used to schedule flows between and collect live samples from nodes running the flowgrindd daemon.

Features:

  • Measure bandwidth, delay, and IAT and sample TCP kernel metrics (tcp_info)
  • Bulk transfers, rate-limited flows, sophisticated request/response test
  • Report observed MSS/MTU size
  • Set buffer size on per flow basis
  • Set congestion control algorithm, DSCP field, etc.
  • Uses asynchronous I/O to improve fairness between flows
  • Gnuplot compatible configureable output format

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

sudo apt-get -y install flowgrind

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

You can also use apt command to install flowgrind.

sudo apt -y install flowgrind

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

sudo aptitude install flowgrind

Summary

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