prometheus-postgres-exporter command not found

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

Introduction

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

prometheus-postgres-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-postgres-exporter: command not found

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

prometheus-postgres-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics, written in Go. Supports Postgres versions 9.4 and up.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install prometheus-postgres-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-postgres-exporter

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