sg_read_attr command not found

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

Introduction

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

sg_read_attr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sg_read_attr: command not found

Solutions to sg_read_attr: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sg_read_attr is provided by sg3-utils package.

sg3-utils is:

Most OSes have SCSI pass-through interfaces that enable user space programs to send SCSI commands to a device and fetch the response. With SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) many ATA disks now can process SCSI commands. Typically each utility in this package implements one SCSI command. See the draft standards at www.t10.org for SCSI command definitions plus SAT. ATA commands are defined in the draft standards at www.t13.org . For a mapping between supported SCSI and ATA commands and utility names in this package see the COVERAGE file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sg3-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install sg3-utils.

sudo apt -y install sg3-utils

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

sudo aptitude install sg3-utils

Summary

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