thinkfan command not found

Introduction

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

thinkfan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: thinkfan: command not found

Solutions to thinkfan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu thinkfan is provided by thinkfan package.

thinkfan is:

Some hardware has a kind of broken fan-control and lets the fan run faster than really needed. Thinkfan will prevent this by controlling the fan on its own (the fan speed for each temperature interval can be adjusted in the configuration file).

Originally designed specifically for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, it supports any kind of system via the sysfs hwmon interface. It is designed to eat as little CPU power as possible.

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

sudo apt-get -y install thinkfan

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

You can also use apt command to install thinkfan.

sudo apt -y install thinkfan

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

sudo aptitude install thinkfan

Summary

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