spew command not found

Introduction

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

spew: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spew: command not found

Solutions to spew: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spew is provided by spew package.

spew is:

Spew is used to measure I/O performance of character devices, block devices, and regular files. It can also be used to generate high I/O loads to stress systems while verifying data integrity.

Spew is easy to use and is flexible. No configuration files or complicated client/server configurations are needed. Spew also generates its own data patterns that are designed to make it easy to find and debug data integrity problems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spew

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

You can also use apt command to install spew.

sudo apt -y install spew

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

sudo aptitude install spew

Summary

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