facterdb command not found

Introduction

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

facterdb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: facterdb: command not found

Solutions to facterdb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu facterdb is provided by facterdb package.

facterdb is:

facterdb is a library and tool that contains facts from many Facter version on many Operating Systems. It is very useful for providing context to spec tests for Puppet manifests in order to simulate running tests on many different platforms.

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

sudo apt-get -y install facterdb

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

You can also use apt command to install facterdb.

sudo apt -y install facterdb

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

sudo aptitude install facterdb

Summary

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