memtester command not found

Introduction

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

memtester: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: memtester: command not found

Solutions to memtester: command not found

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

In Ubuntu memtester is provided by memtester package.

memtester is:

This is a userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. In comparison to memtest86 you do not need to reboot the computer to test for memory faults.

Memtester can also be told to test memory starting at a particular physical address.

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

sudo apt-get -y install memtester

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

You can also use apt command to install memtester.

sudo apt -y install memtester

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

sudo aptitude install memtester

Summary

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