nvidia-powerd command not found

Introduction

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

nvidia-powerd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvidia-powerd: command not found

Solutions to nvidia-powerd: command not found

How To Fix nvidia-powerd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nvidia-powerd is provided by nvidia-kernel-common-510 package.

nvidia-kernel-common-510 is:

This package installs all the optional accessory files for the NVIDIA kernel module.

Install this package if you want to blacklist any conflicting kernel modules, and if you want udev to load the the NVIDIA kernel modules, and to create the uvm devices automatically.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-kernel-common-510

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

You can also use apt command to install nvidia-kernel-common-510.

sudo apt -y install nvidia-kernel-common-510

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

sudo aptitude install nvidia-kernel-common-510

Summary

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