pidof command not found

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

Introduction

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

pidof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pidof: command not found

In Ubuntu pidof is provided by sysvinit-utils package.

sysvinit-utils is:

This package contains the important System-V-like utilities.

Specifically, this package includes: init-d-script, fstab-decode, killall5, pidof

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

sudo apt-get -y install sysvinit-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install sysvinit-utils

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

sudo aptitude install sysvinit-utils

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