speedometer command not found

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

Introduction

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

speedometer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: speedometer: command not found

Solutions to speedometer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu speedometer is provided by speedometer package.

speedometer is:

Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer. The program can be used for cases like:

  • how long it will take for 38 MiB transfer to finish
  • how quickly is another transfer going
  • how fast is the upstream on this ADSL line
  • how fast is data written to a filesystem.

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

sudo apt-get -y install speedometer

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

You can also use apt command to install speedometer.

sudo apt -y install speedometer

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

sudo aptitude install speedometer

Summary

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