hcloud command not found

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

Introduction

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

hcloud: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hcloud: command not found

Solutions to hcloud: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hcloud is provided by hcloud-cli package.

hcloud-cli is:

hcloud-cli is a command-line interface for interacting with Hetzner Cloud.

The Hetzner Cloud API operates over HTTPS and uses JSON as its data format. The API is a RESTful API and utilizes HTTP methods and HTTP status codes to specify requests and responses.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hcloud-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install hcloud-cli.

sudo apt -y install hcloud-cli

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

sudo aptitude install hcloud-cli

Summary

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