iotop-c command not found

Introduction

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

iotop-c: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iotop-c: command not found

Solutions to iotop-c: command not found

How To Fix iotop-c: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iotop-c is provided by iotop-c package.

iotop-c is:

iotop-c does for I/O usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. It is handy for answering the question “Why is the disk churning so much?”.

iotop-c requires a Linux kernel built with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS config options on.

iotop-c is an alternative re-implementation of iotop in C, optimized for performance. Normally a monitoring tool intended to be used on a system under heavy stress should use the least additional resources as possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iotop-c

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

You can also use apt command to install iotop-c.

sudo apt -y install iotop-c

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

sudo aptitude install iotop-c

Summary

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