dmraid-activate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dmraid-activate command not found error message

Introduction

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

dmraid-activate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dmraid-activate: command not found

Solutions to dmraid-activate: command not found

How To Fix dmraid-activate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dmraid-activate is provided by dmraid package.

dmraid is:

dmraid discovers, activates, deactivates and displays properties of software RAID sets (eg, ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions.

dmraid uses the Linux device-mapper to create devices with respective mappings for the ATARAID sets discovered.

The following formats are supported: Highpoint HPT37X/HPT45X Intel Software RAID LSI Logic MegaRAID NVidia NForce RAID (nvraid) Promise FastTrack Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) VIA Software RAID

Please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/dmraid BEFORE attempting any use of this software. Improper use can cause data loss!

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

sudo apt-get -y install dmraid

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

You can also use apt command to install dmraid.

sudo apt -y install dmraid

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

sudo aptitude install dmraid

Summary

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