smem command not found

Introduction

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

smem: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smem: command not found

Solutions to smem: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smem is provided by smem package.

smem is:

Tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system.

This package contains main tool which can also process data collected by smemcap.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smem

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

You can also use apt command to install smem.

sudo apt -y install smem

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

sudo aptitude install smem

Summary

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