sinfod command not found

Introduction

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

sinfod: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sinfod: command not found

Solutions to sinfod: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sinfod is provided by sinfo package.

sinfo is:

The sinfo cluster monitoring system uses network broadcasts to distribute information about the status of local nodes, including their CPU/memory usage, network load, and top five processes. It consists of a daemon running on each node and an ncurses frontend to monitor them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install sinfo.

sudo apt -y install sinfo

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

sudo aptitude install sinfo

Summary

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