httperf command not found

Introduction

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

httperf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: httperf: command not found

Solutions to httperf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu httperf is provided by httperf package.

httperf is:

httperf is a tool to measure web server performance. It speaks the HTTP protocol both in its HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 flavors and offers a variety of workload generators. While running, it keeps track of a number of performance metrics that are summarized in the form of statistics that are printed at the end of a test run.

This package provide httperf and idleconn commands.

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

sudo apt-get -y install httperf

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

You can also use apt command to install httperf.

sudo apt -y install httperf

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

sudo aptitude install httperf

Summary

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