carbon-c-relay command not found

Introduction

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

carbon-c-relay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: carbon-c-relay: command not found

Solutions to carbon-c-relay: command not found

How To Fix carbon-c-relay: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu carbon-c-relay is provided by carbon-c-relay package.

carbon-c-relay is:

This project provides a multithreaded relay which can address multiple targets and clusters for each and every metric based on pattern matches.

Consistent-hash routing compatible with the original carbon’s implementation is also provided. This relay also supports aggregation, failover of backend servers and more.

Carbon is graphite’s default storage backend and supports different protocols for receiving metrics, this project aims to be a replacement of graphite’s original carbon-relay component and supports “plaintext” protocol metrics.

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

sudo apt-get -y install carbon-c-relay

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

You can also use apt command to install carbon-c-relay.

sudo apt -y install carbon-c-relay

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

sudo aptitude install carbon-c-relay

Summary

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