ceph-volume-systemd command not found

Introduction

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

ceph-volume-systemd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ceph-volume-systemd: command not found

Solutions to ceph-volume-systemd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ceph-volume-systemd is provided by ceph-volume package.

ceph-volume 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 a tool to deploy OSD with different devices like lvm or physical disks, and trying to follow a predictable, and robust way of preparing, activating, and starting the deployed OSD.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceph-volume

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

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

sudo apt -y install ceph-volume

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

sudo aptitude install ceph-volume

Summary

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