prometheus-squid-exporter command not found

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

Introduction

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

prometheus-squid-exporter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-squid-exporter: command not found

Solutions to prometheus-squid-exporter: command not found

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

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

prometheus-squid-exporter is:

Prometheus exporter which connects to a Squid proxy server’s cache manager API and exposes metrics such as:

  • Cache hit counters
  • Client HTTP request / byte counters
  • Server HTTP / FTP requests
  • Request error counters

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install prometheus-squid-exporter

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

sudo aptitude install prometheus-squid-exporter

Summary

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