vma command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix vma command not found error message

Introduction

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

vma: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vma: command not found

Solutions to vma: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vma is provided by libvma package.

libvma is:

libvma is a LD_PRELOAD-able library that boosts performance of TCP and UDP traffic. It allows application written over standard socket API to handle fast path data traffic from user space over Ethernet and/or Infiniband with full network stack bypass and get better throughput, latency and packets/sec rate.

No application binary change is required for that. libvma is supported by RDMA capable devices that support “verbs” IBV_QPT_RAW_PACKET QP for Ethernet and/or IBV_QPT_UD QP for IPoIB.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvma

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

You can also use apt command to install libvma.

sudo apt -y install libvma

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

sudo aptitude install libvma

Summary

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