prometheus-ipmi-exporter command not found

Introduction

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

prometheus-ipmi-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-ipmi-exporter: command not found

Solutions to prometheus-ipmi-exporter: command not found

How To Fix prometheus-ipmi-exporter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

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

prometheus-ipmi-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter for Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) device sensor metrics. Supports local IPMI devices (e.g., /dev/ipmi0), or remote devices via Remote Management Control Protocol (RMCP). When using RMCP, a single exporter can be used to monitor a large number of IPMI devices by passing a target hostname as a parameter.

This exporter relies on tools from the FreeIPMI suite for the actual IPMI implementation.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install prometheus-ipmi-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-ipmi-exporter

Summary

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