redis-check-aof command not found

Introduction

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

redis-check-aof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: redis-check-aof: command not found

Solutions to redis-check-aof: command not found

How To Fix redis-check-aof: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu redis-check-aof is provided by redis-tools package.

redis-tools is:

Redis is a key-value database in a similar vein to memcache but the dataset is non-volatile. Redis additionally provides native support for atomically manipulating and querying data structures such as lists and sets.

This package contains the command line client and other tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install redis-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install redis-tools.

sudo apt -y install redis-tools

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

sudo aptitude install redis-tools

Summary

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