systray-mdstat command not found

Introduction

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

systray-mdstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: systray-mdstat: command not found

Solutions to systray-mdstat: command not found

How To Fix systray-mdstat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu systray-mdstat is provided by systray-mdstat package.

systray-mdstat is:

systray-mdstat is a system tray icon indicating the state of local Linux Software RAIDs (as set up with mdadm) by checking /proc/mdstat for changes — especially failures — periodically.

The use case for this utility is a desktop or laptop with a software RAID setup and no remote monitoring of the RAID (e.g. for privacy reasons or due to lacking a permanent network connection or an appropriate monitoring server).

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

sudo apt-get -y install systray-mdstat

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

You can also use apt command to install systray-mdstat.

sudo apt -y install systray-mdstat

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

sudo aptitude install systray-mdstat

Summary

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