pflash command not found

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

Introduction

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

pflash: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pflash: command not found

In Ubuntu pflash is provided by opal-utils package.

opal-utils is:

This package contains utility programs.

The ‘gard’ utility, can read, parse and clear hardware gard partitions on OpenPower platforms.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opal-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install opal-utils.

sudo apt -y install opal-utils

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

sudo aptitude install opal-utils

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