rasdaemon command not found

Introduction

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

rasdaemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rasdaemon: command not found

Solutions to rasdaemon: command not found

How To Fix rasdaemon: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rasdaemon is provided by rasdaemon package.

rasdaemon is:

rasdaemon is a RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) logging tool. It currently records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC are drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on x86 and ARM architectures. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as a utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rasdaemon

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

You can also use apt command to install rasdaemon.

sudo apt -y install rasdaemon

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

sudo aptitude install rasdaemon

Summary

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