ceph-monstore-tool command not found

Introduction

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

ceph-monstore-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ceph-monstore-tool: command not found

Solutions to ceph-monstore-tool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ceph-monstore-tool is provided by ceph-mon package.

ceph-mon is:

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

This package contains the cluster monitor daemon for the Ceph storage system. One or more instances of ceph-mon form a Paxos part-time parliament cluster that provides extremely reliable and durable storage of cluster membership, configuration, and state.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceph-mon

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

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

sudo apt -y install ceph-mon

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

sudo aptitude install ceph-mon

Summary

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