lavacli command not found

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

Introduction

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

lavacli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lavacli: command not found

Solutions to lavacli: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lavacli is provided by lavacli package.

lavacli is:

LAVA is a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests. Tests can be simple boot testing, bootloader testing and system level testing, although extra hardware may be required for some system tests. Results are tracked over time and data can be exported for further analysis.

This package provides a user space command line interface to any LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture) instance for submitting test jobs or querying the instance for device and job status over XML-RPC. A user account on the instance is needed to create and use authentication tokens for some calls. The list of calls supported is described on the API section of the LAVA instance.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lavacli

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

You can also use apt command to install lavacli.

sudo apt -y install lavacli

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

sudo aptitude install lavacli

Summary

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