glusterfs command not found

Introduction

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

glusterfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glusterfs: command not found

Solutions to glusterfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu glusterfs is provided by glusterfs-client package.

glusterfs-client is:

GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file system in terms of features and extensibility. It borrows a powerful concept called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code in GlusterFS is in userspace and easily manageable.

This package provides the FUSE based GlusterFS tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glusterfs-client

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

You can also use apt command to install glusterfs-client.

sudo apt -y install glusterfs-client

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

sudo aptitude install glusterfs-client

Summary

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