lsm command not found

Introduction

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

lsm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lsm: command not found

Solutions to lsm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lsm is provided by lsm package.

lsm is:

Provide a Link Status Monitor, It can be used to monitor Linux router/firewall connectivity and if router/firewall has multiple connections it can change routing when an up/down event happens by utilizing external script. This package is highly influenced by fping and iputils arping.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lsm

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

You can also use apt command to install lsm.

sudo apt -y install lsm

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

sudo aptitude install lsm

Summary

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