spine command not found

Introduction

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

spine: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spine: command not found

Solutions to spine: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spine is provided by cacti-spine package.

cacti-spine is:

Spine is a replacement for the default cmd.php poller in the cacti package. It primarily strives to be as fast as possible, and is designed for sites with large numbers of hosts and devices polled.

If the default poller provided by cacti works for you, then you should not use this package. You should only use this package if the default poller is unable to complete a polling cycle in the required amount of time.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cacti-spine

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

You can also use apt command to install cacti-spine.

sudo apt -y install cacti-spine

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

sudo aptitude install cacti-spine

Summary

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