gearman command not found

Introduction

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

gearman: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gearman: command not found

Solutions to gearman: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gearman is provided by gearman-tools package.

gearman-tools is:

Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

This package contains some command line tools for manipulating gearman jobs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gearman-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install gearman-tools.

sudo apt -y install gearman-tools

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

sudo aptitude install gearman-tools

Summary

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