smdevinfo command not found

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

Introduction

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

smdevinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smdevinfo: command not found

In Ubuntu smdevinfo is provided by libsmdev-utils package.

libsmdev-utils is:

libsmdev is a library to access to storage media devices.

This package contains smdevinfo, a tool to determine information about storage media devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsmdev-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install libsmdev-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libsmdev-utils

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