masakari-api command not found

Introduction

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

masakari-api: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: masakari-api: command not found

Solutions to masakari-api: command not found

How To Fix masakari-api: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu masakari-api is provided by python3-masakari package.

python3-masakari is:

Masakari provides Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) service for OpenStack clouds by automatically recovering the KVM-based Virtual Machine(VM)s from failure events such as VM process down, provisioning process down, and nova-compute host failure. It also provides API service for manage and control the automated rescue mechanism.

This package contains the Python 3 module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-masakari

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-masakari.

sudo apt -y install python3-masakari

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

sudo aptitude install python3-masakari

Summary

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