prometheus-bird-exporter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix prometheus-bird-exporter command not found error message

Introduction

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

prometheus-bird-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-bird-exporter: command not found

In Ubuntu prometheus-bird-exporter is provided by prometheus-bird-exporter package.

prometheus-bird-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter for the BIRD routing daemon, which collects metrics from BIRD’s Unix control socket. Exposed metrics include:

BGP session state
OSPF neighbor / interface count
Imported / exported / filtered prefix counts / route state changes (BGP, OSPF, Kernel, Static, Device, Direct)
Protocol uptimes (BGP, OSPF)

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

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-bird-exporter

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

You can also use apt command to install prometheus-bird-exporter.

sudo apt -y install prometheus-bird-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-bird-exporter

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