gnocchi-api command not found

Introduction

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

gnocchi-api: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnocchi-api: command not found

Solutions to gnocchi-api: command not found

How To Fix gnocchi-api: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnocchi-api is provided by python3-gnocchi package.

python3-gnocchi is:

Gnocchi is a service for managing a set of resources and storing metrics about them, in a scalable and resilient way. Its functionalities are exposed over an HTTP REST API.

This package contains the Python 3 module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-gnocchi

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-gnocchi.

sudo apt -y install python3-gnocchi

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

sudo aptitude install python3-gnocchi

Summary

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