dmraid command not found

Introduction

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

dmraid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dmraid: command not found

Solutions to dmraid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dmraid 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 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.