stressapptest command not found

Introduction

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

stressapptest: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stressapptest: command not found

Solutions to stressapptest: command not found

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

In Ubuntu stressapptest is provided by stressapptest package.

stressapptest is:

Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest, its unix name) tries to maximize randomized traffic to memory from processor and I/O, with the intent of creating a realistic high load situation in order to test the existing hardware devices in a computer.

Stressapptest may be used for various purposes:

• stress test
• hardware qualification and debugging
• memory interface test
• disk testing

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

sudo apt-get -y install stressapptest

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

You can also use apt command to install stressapptest.

sudo apt -y install stressapptest

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

sudo aptitude install stressapptest

Summary

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