timing_slave command not found

Introduction

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

timing_slave: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: timing_slave: command not found

Solutions to timing_slave: command not found

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

In Ubuntu timing_slave is provided by pvm-examples package.

pvm-examples is:

This package provides the examples distributed along with the Parallel Virtual Machine. This can be useful for initial cluster or interoptability testing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pvm-examples

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

You can also use apt command to install pvm-examples.

sudo apt -y install pvm-examples

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

sudo aptitude install pvm-examples

Summary

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