pipemeter command not found

Introduction

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

pipemeter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pipemeter: command not found

Solutions to pipemeter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pipemeter is provided by pipemeter package.

pipemeter is:

pipemeter can be inserted in a shell command between two programs passing data via pipe, or between a file and a program reading from stdin, and show the speed and amount of data that has passed through. If reading from a regular file, or passed a size, a progress meter is also shown.

Command line switches allow tuning of block size and display interval. Size parameters have support for dd style block size specification.

Pipemeter is intended to be very lightweight, with no dependencies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pipemeter

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

You can also use apt command to install pipemeter.

sudo apt -y install pipemeter

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

sudo aptitude install pipemeter

Summary

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