ganesha.nfsd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ganesha.nfsd command not found error message

Introduction

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

ganesha.nfsd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ganesha.nfsd: command not found

Solutions to ganesha.nfsd: command not found

How To Fix ganesha.nfsd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ganesha.nfsd is provided by nfs-ganesha package.

nfs-ganesha is:

NFS-GANESHA is a NFS Server running in user space with a large cache. It comes with various backend modules to support different file systems and namespaces. Supported name spaces are POSIX, PROXY, SNMP, FUSE-like, HPSS, LUSTRE, XFS and ZFS.

This package contains the binaries

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

sudo apt-get -y install nfs-ganesha

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

You can also use apt command to install nfs-ganesha.

sudo apt -y install nfs-ganesha

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

sudo aptitude install nfs-ganesha

Summary

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