mrtg-load command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mrtg-load command not found error message

Introduction

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

mrtg-load: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mrtg-load: command not found

Solutions to mrtg-load: command not found

How To Fix mrtg-load: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mrtg-load is provided by mrtgutils package.

mrtgutils is:

MRTGutils is a collection of simple utilities to generate output useful for mrtg. Many of the existing mrtg setups use shell or perl scripts to gather output. On busy systems, these scripts can generate a lot of extra load. These (small) C programs can return the given statistics more efficiently.

This package provides the following binaries that return:

  • mrtg-load: the current load average (5-minute average)
  • mrtg-ip-acct: the number of IP packets that have traversed an interface
  • mrtg-apache: the number of hits to a Apache web site

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

sudo apt-get -y install mrtgutils

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

You can also use apt command to install mrtgutils.

sudo apt -y install mrtgutils

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

sudo aptitude install mrtgutils

Summary

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