gnocchi command not found

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

Introduction

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

gnocchi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnocchi: command not found

Solutions to gnocchi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gnocchi is provided by python3-gnocchiclient package.

python3-gnocchiclient is:

This is a client for OpenStack gnocchi API. There’s a Python API (the gnocchiclient module), and a command-line script. Each implements the entire OpenStack Gnocchi API.

Gnocchi is a service for managing a set of resources and storing metrics about them, in a scalable and resilient way. Its functionalities are exposed over an HTTP REST API.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-gnocchiclient

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-gnocchiclient.

sudo apt -y install python3-gnocchiclient

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

sudo aptitude install python3-gnocchiclient

Summary

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