proc_stat_parse command not found

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

Introduction

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

proc_stat_parse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: proc_stat_parse: command not found

Solutions to proc_stat_parse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu proc_stat_parse is provided by hxtools package.

hxtools is:

A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.

  • bsvplay(1) - convert BASICA music files to PCM
  • cctypeinfo(1) - show sizes of C types on the implementation it was compiled with
  • checkbrack(1) - check parenthesis and bracket count
  • declone(1) - break hardlinks
  • diff2php(1) - transform patch to self-serving PHP file
  • fd0ssh(1) - pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh
  • fnt2bdf(1) - convert VGA raw fonts to X11 BDF
  • gpsh(1) - grep in tracklists and play audio files
  • logontime(8) - show cumulative logon time from wtmp
  • mailsplit(1) - split an mbox into single files
  • mod2opus(1) – wrapper for tracker module/MIDI to Opus transcoding
  • hxnetload(8) – show utilization of network interface
  • ofl(1) - open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m)
  • paddrspacesize(1) - print size of processes’ address spaces
  • pesubst(1) - perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for sub-stitutions)
  • pmap_dirty(1) - display amount of RAM a process uses hard
  • proc_iomem_count(1) - show MMIO region sizes
  • qplay(1) - convert QBASIC play strings to PCM
  • qtar(1) - faster interface to tar with file ordering
  • recursive_lower(1) - recursively lowercase all filenames
  • sourcefuncsize(1) - statistical analysis of code
  • spec-beautifier(1) - program to clean up RPM .spec files
  • su1(8) - what sudo should have done
  • utmp_register(1) - make entries in the utmp/wtmp database
  • vcsaview(8) - display a screen dump in VCSA format
  • vfontas(1) - VGA font file assembler
  • wktimer(1) - work timer

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

sudo apt-get -y install hxtools

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

You can also use apt command to install hxtools.

sudo apt -y install hxtools

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

sudo aptitude install hxtools

Summary

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