ipmiseld command not found

Introduction

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

ipmiseld: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipmiseld: command not found

Solutions to ipmiseld: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ipmiseld is provided by freeipmi-ipmiseld package.

freeipmi-ipmiseld is:

FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.

This package contains ipmiseld which takes the system event log from the BMC and imports it to syslog

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

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld

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

You can also use apt command to install freeipmi-ipmiseld.

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-ipmiseld

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

sudo aptitude install freeipmi-ipmiseld

Summary

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