smp_discover command not found

Introduction

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

smp_discover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smp_discover: command not found

Solutions to smp_discover: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smp_discover is provided by smp-utils package.

smp-utils is:

Utilities that send a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Management Protocol (SMP) request to a SMP target. If the request fails then the error is decoded. If the request succeeds then the response is either decoded, printed out in hexadecimal or output in binary. This package supports multiple interfaces since SMP passthroughs are not mature. This package supports the Linux 2.6 series.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smp-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install smp-utils

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

sudo aptitude install smp-utils

Summary

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