virshbmc command not found

Introduction

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

virshbmc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: virshbmc: command not found

Solutions to virshbmc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu virshbmc is provided by python3-pyghmi package.

python3-pyghmi is:

This is a pure Python implementation of IPMI protocol. ipmictl.py is a sample application to roughly show the most simple approach to invoking the library. With this library, you can remotely start/stop/reset your server.

This package provides the Python 3.x module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pyghmi

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pyghmi.

sudo apt -y install python3-pyghmi

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pyghmi

Summary

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