pidproxy command not found

Introduction

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

pidproxy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pidproxy: command not found

Solutions to pidproxy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pidproxy is provided by supervisor package.

supervisor is:

Supervisor is a system for controlling and maintaining process state, similar to what init does, but not intended as an init replacement.

It will manage individual processes or groups of processes that need to be started and stopped in order, and it is possible to control individual process state via an rpc mechanism, thus allowing ordinary users to restart processes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install supervisor

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

You can also use apt command to install supervisor.

sudo apt -y install supervisor

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

sudo aptitude install supervisor

Summary

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