pg_autoctl command not found

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

Introduction

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

pg_autoctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pg_autoctl: command not found

In Ubuntu pg_autoctl is provided by pg-auto-failover-cli package.

pg-auto-failover-cli is:

This CLI is used to manage pg_auto_failover installations to provide High Availability to Postgres.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pg-auto-failover-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install pg-auto-failover-cli.

sudo apt -y install pg-auto-failover-cli

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

sudo aptitude install pg-auto-failover-cli

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