pcm command not found

Introduction

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

pcm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pcm: command not found

Solutions to pcm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pcm is provided by pcm package.

pcm is:

Processor Counter Monitor is a set of tools to access various performance metrics provided by newer Intel processors. Such metrics include:

• instructions per cycle
• core frequencies
• memory/interconnect/PCIe bandwidth
• cache misses and utilization
• time spent in C-states
• thermal headroom
• energy consumption
• NUMA accesses and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pcm

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

You can also use apt command to install pcm.

sudo apt -y install pcm

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

sudo aptitude install pcm

Summary

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