nocache command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nocache command not found error message

Introduction

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

nocache: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nocache: command not found

In Ubuntu nocache is provided by nocache package.

nocache is:

nocache tries to minimize the effect an application has on the Linux file system cache.

Use case: backup processes that should not interfere with the present state of the cache.

Also this package provides the following utilities:

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

sudo apt-get -y install nocache

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

You can also use apt command to install nocache.

sudo apt -y install nocache

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

sudo aptitude install nocache

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