preload command not found

Introduction

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

preload: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: preload: command not found

Solutions to preload: command not found

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

In Ubuntu preload is provided by preload package.

preload is:

preload monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.

Note that installing preload will not make your system boot faster and that preload is a daemon that runs with root privileges.

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

sudo apt-get -y install preload

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

You can also use apt command to install preload.

sudo apt -y install preload

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

sudo aptitude install preload

Summary

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