rgpiod command not found

Introduction

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

rgpiod: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rgpiod: command not found

Solutions to rgpiod: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rgpiod is provided by rgpiod package.

rgpiod is:

The rgpiod daemon provides remote control of the GPIO pins of the local computer via TCP sockets. It includes facilities for software PWM, callbacks on level change, I2C, SPI, and UART wrappers. It also provides file handling, script and network facilities.

This package contains the rgpiod daemon itself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rgpiod

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

You can also use apt command to install rgpiod.

sudo apt -y install rgpiod

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

sudo aptitude install rgpiod

Summary

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