redis-sentinel command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix redis-sentinel command not found error message

Introduction

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

redis-sentinel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: redis-sentinel: command not found

Solutions to redis-sentinel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu redis-sentinel is provided by redis-sentinel package.

redis-sentinel 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 Redis Sentinel monitoring software.

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

sudo apt-get -y install redis-sentinel

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

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

sudo apt -y install redis-sentinel

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

sudo aptitude install redis-sentinel

Summary

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