dbpmda command not found

Introduction

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

dbpmda: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbpmda: command not found

Solutions to dbpmda: command not found

How To Fix dbpmda: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dbpmda is provided by pcp package.

pcp is:

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management.

The Performance Co-Pilot provides a unifying abstraction for all of the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pcp

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

You can also use apt command to install pcp.

sudo apt -y install pcp

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

sudo aptitude install pcp

Summary

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