pduclient command not found

Introduction

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

pduclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pduclient: command not found

Solutions to pduclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pduclient is provided by pdudaemon-client package.

pdudaemon-client is:

Pdudaemon provides a standard way of controlling power controllers, which can either be local devices or networked PDUs. On top of that it ensures the control commands to the PDU are executed sequentially to avoid issues with many PDUs in handling multiple parallel requests.

This package provides the client

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

sudo apt-get -y install pdudaemon-client

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

You can also use apt command to install pdudaemon-client.

sudo apt -y install pdudaemon-client

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

sudo aptitude install pdudaemon-client

Summary

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