config-gfarm-update command not found

Introduction

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

config-gfarm-update: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: config-gfarm-update: command not found

Solutions to config-gfarm-update: command not found

How To Fix config-gfarm-update: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu config-gfarm-update is provided by gfmd package.

gfmd is:

The Gfarm file system is designed to turn commodity PCs into nodes of a distributed storage network, implementing the Grid Datafarm architecture for global petascale data-intensive computing. It solves performance and reliability problems in NFS and AFS by means of multiple file replicas, and not only prevents performance degradation due to access concentration, but also supports fault tolerance and disaster recovery.

This package provides the Gfarm metadata server, which equips a host to function as a server node managing file system metadata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gfmd

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

You can also use apt command to install gfmd.

sudo apt -y install gfmd

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

sudo aptitude install gfmd

Summary

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