carbon-relay command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix carbon-relay command not found error message

Introduction

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

carbon-relay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: carbon-relay: command not found

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

graphite-carbon is:

Graphite is a web application using the Twisted framework to provide real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data.

The Carbon daemon processes the incoming time-series data and saves it as Whisper database files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install graphite-carbon

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

You can also use apt command to install graphite-carbon.

sudo apt -y install graphite-carbon

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

sudo aptitude install graphite-carbon

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