eventstat command not found

Introduction

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

eventstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eventstat: command not found

Solutions to eventstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu eventstat is provided by eventstat package.

eventstat is:

Eventstat periodically dumps out the current kernel event state. It keeps track of current events and outputs the change in events on each output update. The tool requires sudo to run since it needs to write to /proc/timer_stats to start and stop the event monitoring.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eventstat

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

You can also use apt command to install eventstat.

sudo apt -y install eventstat

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

sudo aptitude install eventstat

Summary

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