prometheus-smokeping-prober command not found

Introduction

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

prometheus-smokeping-prober: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-smokeping-prober: command not found

Solutions to prometheus-smokeping-prober: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prometheus-smokeping-prober is provided by prometheus-smokeping-prober package.

prometheus-smokeping-prober is:

This prober sends a series of ICMP (or UDP) pings to a target and records the responses in Prometheus histogram metrics. The resulting metrics are useful for detecting changes in network latency (or round trip time), as well as packet loss over a network path.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-smokeping-prober

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

You can also use apt command to install prometheus-smokeping-prober.

sudo apt -y install prometheus-smokeping-prober

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-smokeping-prober

Summary

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