mysql_ldb command not found

Introduction

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

mysql_ldb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mysql_ldb: command not found

Solutions to mysql_ldb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mysql_ldb is provided by mariadb-plugin-rocksdb package.

mariadb-plugin-rocksdb is:

The RocksDB storage engine is a high performance storage engine, aimed at maximizing storage efficiency while maintaining InnoDB-like performance. This package contains the RocksDB plugin for MariaDB.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mariadb-plugin-rocksdb

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

You can also use apt command to install mariadb-plugin-rocksdb.

sudo apt -y install mariadb-plugin-rocksdb

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

sudo aptitude install mariadb-plugin-rocksdb

Summary

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