consul command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix consul command not found error message

Introduction

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

consul: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: consul: command not found

In Ubuntu consul is provided by consul package.

consul is:

Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.

Consul provides several key features:

Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers.
Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the Consul servers only on Linux, however.

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

sudo apt-get -y install consul

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

You can also use apt command to install consul.

sudo apt -y install consul

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

sudo aptitude install consul

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