genfio command not found

Introduction

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

genfio: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: genfio: command not found

Solutions to genfio: command not found

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

In Ubuntu genfio is provided by fio package.

fio is:

fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of I/O action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the I/O load one wants to simulate.

This package contains the command line version of fio and all additional command line tools. The package gfio contains the GTK+ based gui frontend for fio.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fio

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

You can also use apt command to install fio.

sudo apt -y install fio

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

sudo aptitude install fio

Summary

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