smemstat command not found

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

Introduction

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

smemstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smemstat: command not found

Solutions to smemstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smemstat is provided by smemstat package.

smemstat is:

Smemstat reports the physical memory usage taking into consideration shared memory. The tool can either report a current snapshot of memory usage or periodically dump out any changes in memory.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smemstat

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

You can also use apt command to install smemstat.

sudo apt -y install smemstat

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

sudo aptitude install smemstat

Summary

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