stress-ng command not found

Introduction

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

stress-ng: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stress-ng: command not found

Solutions to stress-ng: command not found

How To Fix stress-ng: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu stress-ng is provided by stress-ng package.

stress-ng is:

stress-ng can stress various subsystems of a computer. It can stress load CPU, cache, disk, memory, socket and pipe I/O, scheduling and much more. stress-ng is a re-write of the original stress tool by Amos Waterland but has many additional features such as specifying the number of bogo operations to run, execution metrics, a stress verification on memory and compute operations and considerably more stress mechanisms.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stress-ng

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

You can also use apt command to install stress-ng.

sudo apt -y install stress-ng

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

sudo aptitude install stress-ng

Summary

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