gfio command not found

Introduction

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

gfio: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gfio: command not found

Solutions to gfio: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gfio is provided by gfio package.

gfio 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 GTK+ based gui frontend for fio. The package fio contains the command line version of fio which acts as a backend to the GUI frontend. The frontend can talk to a locally or remotely running fio server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gfio

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

You can also use apt command to install gfio.

sudo apt -y install gfio

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

sudo aptitude install gfio

Summary

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