rmcp_ping command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix rmcp_ping command not found error message

Introduction

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

rmcp_ping: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rmcp_ping: command not found

In Ubuntu rmcp_ping is provided by openipmi package.

openipmi is:

IPMI allows remote monitoring and remote management of devices.

This package contains some command-line and graphical-user-interfaces to interact with IPMI-enabled devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openipmi

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

You can also use apt command to install openipmi.

sudo apt -y install openipmi

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

sudo aptitude install openipmi

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