ipmi-locate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ipmi-locate command not found error message

Introduction

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

ipmi-locate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ipmi-locate: command not found

Solutions to ipmi-locate: command not found

How To Fix ipmi-locate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ipmi-locate is provided by freeipmi-tools package.

freeipmi-tools is:

FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI system software. It provides in-band and out-of-band software and a development library conforming to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 and v2.0) standards.

This package contains assorted IPMI-related tools:

bmc-config - configure BMC values
bmc-info - display BMC information
ipmi-chassis - IPMI chassis management utility
ipmi-fru - display FRU information
ipmi-locate - IPMI probing utility
ipmi-oem - IPMI OEM utility
ipmi-pet - decode Platform Event Traps
ipmi-raw - IPMI raw communication utility
ipmi-sel - display SEL entries
ipmi-sensors - display IPMI sensor information
ipmi-sensors-config - configure sensors
ipmiconsole - IPMI console utility
ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capabilitiy request
ipmipower - IPMI power control utility
pef-config - configure PEF values
rmcpping - send RMCP Ping to network hosts

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

sudo apt-get -y install freeipmi-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install freeipmi-tools.

sudo apt -y install freeipmi-tools

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

sudo aptitude install freeipmi-tools

Summary

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