cinder-backup command not found

Introduction

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

cinder-backup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cinder-backup: command not found

Solutions to cinder-backup: command not found

How To Fix cinder-backup: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cinder-backup is provided by python3-cinder package.

python3-cinder is:

OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

Cinder is the OpenStack Block storage service.

This package contains the Python 3 library for Cinder.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-cinder

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-cinder

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

sudo aptitude install python3-cinder

Summary

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