starman command not found

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

Introduction

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

starman: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: starman: command not found

In Ubuntu starman is provided by starman package.

starman is:

Starman is a PSGI perl web server that has unique features such as:

High Performance - Uses the fast XS/C HTTP header parser
Preforking - Spawns workers preforked like most high performance UNIX servers do. Starman also reaps dead children and automatically restarts the worker pool.
Signals - Supports HUP for graceful restarts, and TTIN/TTOU to dynamically increase or decrease the number of worker processes.
Superdaemon aware - Supports Server::Starter for hot deploy and graceful restarts.
Multiple interfaces and UNIX Domain Socket support - Able to listen on multiple intefaces including UNIX sockets.
Small memory footprint - Preloading the applications with –preload-app command line option enables copy-on-write friendly memory management. Also, the minimum memory usage Starman requires for the master process is 7MB and children (workers) is less than 3.0MB.
PSGI compatible - Can run any PSGI applications and frameworks
HTTP/1.1 support - Supports chunked requests and responses, keep-alive and pipeline requests.

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

sudo apt-get -y install starman

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

You can also use apt command to install starman.

sudo apt -y install starman

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

sudo aptitude install starman

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