ceilometer-polling command not found

Introduction

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

ceilometer-polling: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ceilometer-polling: command not found

Solutions to ceilometer-polling: command not found

How To Fix ceilometer-polling: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ceilometer-polling is provided by python3-ceilometer package.

python3-ceilometer is:

Ceilometer aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing systems to acquire all counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)

This package contains the Python 3 module for ceilometer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ceilometer

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-ceilometer.

sudo apt -y install python3-ceilometer

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

sudo aptitude install python3-ceilometer

Summary

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