acpid command not found

Introduction

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

acpid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: acpid: command not found

Solutions to acpid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu acpid is provided by acpid package.

acpid is:

Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status.

ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface (or on the deprecated file /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acpid

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

You can also use apt command to install acpid.

sudo apt -y install acpid

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

sudo aptitude install acpid

Summary

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