mdata-delete command not found

Introduction

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

mdata-delete: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdata-delete: command not found

Solutions to mdata-delete: command not found

How To Fix mdata-delete: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mdata-delete is provided by joyent-mdata-client package.

joyent-mdata-client is:

In-guest tools for interacting with the SmartOS hyper-visor datasource. These tools allows you to get, list and put key/value pairs with the SmartOS datasource.

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

sudo apt-get -y install joyent-mdata-client

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

You can also use apt command to install joyent-mdata-client.

sudo apt -y install joyent-mdata-client

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

sudo aptitude install joyent-mdata-client

Summary

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