serf command not found

Introduction

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

serf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: serf: command not found

Solutions to serf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu serf is provided by serf package.

serf is:

Serf is a decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration that is lightweight, highly available, and fault tolerant.

Serf runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. An efficient and lightweight gossip protocol is used to communicate with other nodes. Serf can detect node failures and notify the rest of the cluster. An event system is built on top of Serf, letting you use Serf’s gossip protocol to propagate events such as deploys, configuration changes, etc. Serf is completely masterless with no single point of failure.

This package contains the tool/service.

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

sudo apt-get -y install serf

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

You can also use apt command to install serf.

sudo apt -y install serf

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

sudo aptitude install serf

Summary

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