acpi command not found

Introduction

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

acpi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: acpi: command not found

Solutions to acpi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu acpi is provided by acpi package.

acpi is:

Attempts to replicate the functionality of the ‘old’ apm command on ACPI systems, including battery and thermal information. Does not support ACPI suspending, only displays information about ACPI devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acpi

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

You can also use apt command to install acpi.

sudo apt -y install acpi

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

sudo aptitude install acpi

Summary

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