nutcracker command not found

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

Introduction

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

nutcracker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nutcracker: command not found

Solutions to nutcracker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nutcracker is provided by nutcracker package.

nutcracker is:

nutcracker, also known as twemproxy (pronounced “two-em-proxy”), is a fast and lightweight proxy for the memcached and Redis protocols. It was primarily built to reduce the connection count on backend caching servers, but it has a number of features, such as:

  • Maintains persistent server connections to backend servers.
  • Enables pipelining of requests and responses.
  • Supports multiple server pools simultaneously.
  • Shard data automatically across multiple servers.
  • Supports multiple hashing modes including consistent hashing and distribution.
  • High-availability by disabling nodes on failures.
  • Observability through stats exposed on stats monitoring port.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nutcracker

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

You can also use apt command to install nutcracker.

sudo apt -y install nutcracker

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

sudo aptitude install nutcracker

Summary

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