opensm command not found

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

Introduction

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

opensm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: opensm: command not found

Solutions to opensm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu opensm is provided by opensm package.

opensm is:

OpenSM provides an implementation of an InfiniBand Subnet Manager (SM) and Administrator (SA). One Subnet Manager is required to run on each InfiniBand subnet in order to initialize the InfiniBand hardware.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opensm

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

You can also use apt command to install opensm.

sudo apt -y install opensm

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

sudo aptitude install opensm

Summary

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