rrdcached command not found

Introduction

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

rrdcached: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rrdcached: command not found

Solutions to rrdcached: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rrdcached is provided by rrdcached package.

rrdcached is:

RRDCacheD is a daemon that receives updates to existing RRD files, accumulates them and, if enough have been received or a defined time has passed, writes the updates to the RRD file. The daemon was written with big setups in mind. Those setups usually run into I/O related problems. RRDCacheD’s goal is to alleviate these problems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rrdcached

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

You can also use apt command to install rrdcached.

sudo apt -y install rrdcached

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

sudo aptitude install rrdcached

Summary

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