spectre-meltdown-checker command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix spectre-meltdown-checker command not found error message

Introduction

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

spectre-meltdown-checker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spectre-meltdown-checker: command not found

In Ubuntu spectre-meltdown-checker is provided by spectre-meltdown-checker package.

spectre-meltdown-checker is:

A simple shell script to tell if your Linux installation is vulnerable against the 3 “speculative execution” CVEs that were made public early 2018.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spectre-meltdown-checker

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

You can also use apt command to install spectre-meltdown-checker.

sudo apt -y install spectre-meltdown-checker

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

sudo aptitude install spectre-meltdown-checker

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