ceph-kvstore-tool command not found

Introduction

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

ceph-kvstore-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ceph-kvstore-tool: command not found

Solutions to ceph-kvstore-tool: command not found

How To Fix ceph-kvstore-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ceph-kvstore-tool is provided by ceph-base package.

ceph-base is:

Ceph is a distributed storage system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.

This package contains the libraries and management tools that are common among the Ceph server daemons (ceph-mon, ceph-mgr, ceph-osd, ceph-mds). These tools are necessary for creating, running, and administering a Ceph storage cluster.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceph-base

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

You can also use apt command to install ceph-base.

sudo apt -y install ceph-base

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

sudo aptitude install ceph-base

Summary

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