xenstore-read command not found

Introduction

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

xenstore-read: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xenstore-read: command not found

Solutions to xenstore-read: command not found

How To Fix xenstore-read: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xenstore-read is provided by xenstore-utils package.

xenstore-utils is:

This package contains command line utilities for interacting with XenStore.

XenStore is a shared database used for interdomain communication of configuration and status information. It is accessible to all domains running on the same Xen host. See https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStore for more information.

In the common case these tools are used by the Xen toolstack running in domain0 (or a driver domain) however they may also be used in a guest domain to support local scripting which wants to communicate via XenStore.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xenstore-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install xenstore-utils.

sudo apt -y install xenstore-utils

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

sudo aptitude install xenstore-utils

Summary

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