py-cpuinfo command not found

Introduction

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

py-cpuinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: py-cpuinfo: command not found

Solutions to py-cpuinfo: command not found

How To Fix py-cpuinfo: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu py-cpuinfo is provided by py-cpuinfo package.

py-cpuinfo is:

The py-cpuinfo Python module provides pure Python tools for getting CPU infos, without any need of dependencies or extra programs beyond what the OS provides.

This package installs the command line tool for getting CPU info based on the py-cpuinfo Python module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install py-cpuinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install py-cpuinfo.

sudo apt -y install py-cpuinfo

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

sudo aptitude install py-cpuinfo

Summary

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