munin-cron command not found

Introduction

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

munin-cron: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: munin-cron: command not found

Solutions to munin-cron: command not found

How To Fix munin-cron: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu munin-cron is provided by munin package.

munin is:

Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration.

This package contains the grapher/gatherer. You will only need one instance of it in your network. It will periodically poll all the nodes in your network it’s aware of for data, which it in turn will use to create graphs and HTML pages, suitable for viewing with your graphical web browser of choice.

It is also able to alert you if any value is outside of a preset boundary, useful if you want to be alerted if a filesystem is about to grow full, for instance. You can do this by making Munin run an arbitrary command when you need to be alert it, or make use of the intrinsic Nagios support.

Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker’s excellent RRDtool. To see a real example of Munin in action, you can follow a link from http://munin-monitoring.org/ to a live installation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install munin

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

You can also use apt command to install munin.

sudo apt -y install munin

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

sudo aptitude install munin

Summary

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