fusioninventory-esx command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fusioninventory-esx command not found error message

Introduction

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

fusioninventory-esx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fusioninventory-esx: command not found

In Ubuntu fusioninventory-esx is provided by fusioninventory-agent-task-esx package.

fusioninventory-agent-task-esx is:

Do remote inventory of your ESX, ESXi, vCenter server using the SOAP interface. You can import the generated .ocs files in:

GLPI with FusionInventory for GLPI
ocsinventory
Uranos This module can also be controlled from GLPI using the FusionInventory for GLPI plugin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx

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

You can also use apt command to install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx.

sudo apt -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx

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

sudo aptitude install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx

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