glances command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix glances command not found error message

Introduction

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

glances: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glances: command not found

In Ubuntu glances is provided by glances package.

glances is:

Glances is a curses-based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux or BSD OS. Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system.

It monitors CPU, load, memory, network bandwidth, disk I/O, disk use, process.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glances

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

You can also use apt command to install glances.

sudo apt -y install glances

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

sudo aptitude install glances

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