smartd command not found

Introduction

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

smartd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smartd: command not found

Solutions to smartd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smartd is provided by smartmontools package.

smartmontools is:

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. It is derived from the smartsuite package, and includes support for ATA/ATAPI-5 disks. It should run on any modern Linux system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smartmontools

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

You can also use apt command to install smartmontools.

sudo apt -y install smartmontools

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

sudo aptitude install smartmontools

Summary

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