prometheus-frr-exporter command not found

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

Introduction

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

prometheus-frr-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-frr-exporter: command not found

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

prometheus-frr-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter for FRR version 3.0+ that collects metrics by using vtysh and exposes them via HTTP, ready for collecting by Prometheus.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install prometheus-frr-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-frr-exporter

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