pmi command not found

Introduction

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

pmi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pmi: command not found

Solutions to pmi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pmi is provided by powermanagement-interface package.

powermanagement-interface is:

Provides an abstracted layer above the platform specific power management interfaces, with a consistent API so that higher level tools can interact with those interfaces.

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

sudo apt-get -y install powermanagement-interface

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

You can also use apt command to install powermanagement-interface.

sudo apt -y install powermanagement-interface

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

sudo aptitude install powermanagement-interface

Summary

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