openhpid command not found

Introduction

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

openhpid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openhpid: command not found

Solutions to openhpid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu openhpid is provided by openhpid package.

openhpid is:

OpenHPI is an implementation of the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface specification. (See http://www.saforum.org) As such, OpenHPI facilitates the development of computer manageability applications which are not tied to a single hardware vendor’s products.

This package contains the OpenHPI daemon. This process gathers information from managed hardware and systems, making this available to OpenHPI-based applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openhpid

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

You can also use apt command to install openhpid.

sudo apt -y install openhpid

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

sudo aptitude install openhpid

Summary

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