procmeter3-lcd command not found

Introduction

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

procmeter3-lcd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: procmeter3-lcd: command not found

Solutions to procmeter3-lcd: command not found

How To Fix procmeter3-lcd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu procmeter3-lcd is provided by procmeter3 package.

procmeter3 is:

ProcMeter displays constantly updating graphs of system information. Many different graphs are supported, including:

APM and ACPI information. Mailbox monitoring. Date, time, uptime. Amount of free and used disk space. Size, number of lines, rate of growth of log files. Amount of used and free memory and swap. Traffic on network devices. Load average, number of processes running and starting. Low level system statistics like CPU usage, disk usage and swapping. CPU clock speed. Wireless network link quality.

As if all that wasn’t enough, procmeter is designed to be easily extendable via plugins.

Procmeter can use either the Athena or the GTK+ widgets. It also supports display on small LCD screens using the Linux lcdproc driver.

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

sudo apt-get -y install procmeter3

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

You can also use apt command to install procmeter3.

sudo apt -y install procmeter3

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

sudo aptitude install procmeter3

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix procmeter3-lcd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.