numactl command not found

Introduction

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

numactl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: numactl: command not found

Solutions to numactl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu numactl is provided by numactl package.

numactl is:

numactl runs processes with a specific NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) scheduling or memory placement policy. In addition it can set persistent policy for shared memory segments or files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install numactl

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

You can also use apt command to install numactl.

sudo apt -y install numactl

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

sudo aptitude install numactl

Summary

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