hpi_shell command not found

Introduction

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

hpi_shell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hpi_shell: command not found

Solutions to hpi_shell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hpi_shell is provided by openhpi-clients package.

openhpi-clients is:

OpenHPI is an implementation of the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface specification. (See http://www.saforum.org) As such, OpenHPI facilitates the development of computer manageability applications which are not tied to a single hardware vendor’s products.

This package contains the example client programs supplied as part of OpenHPI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openhpi-clients

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

You can also use apt command to install openhpi-clients.

sudo apt -y install openhpi-clients

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

sudo aptitude install openhpi-clients

Summary

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