prometheus-node-exporter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix prometheus-node-exporter command not found error message

Introduction

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

prometheus-node-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-node-exporter: command not found

In Ubuntu prometheus-node-exporter is provided by prometheus-node-exporter package.

prometheus-node-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter for machine metrics, written in Go with pluggable metric collectors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-node-exporter

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

You can also use apt command to install prometheus-node-exporter.

sudo apt -y install prometheus-node-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-node-exporter

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