memslap / memcslap is not present, although it is advertised in the package libmemcached-tools

[Leo Lara]

Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Binary package version: 0.40-1

In package description of binary package 'libmemcahced-tools' it is said that 'memcslap' is included. However, neither memslap non memcslap binary is included.

Also, I see a man page for memcslap, which seems to indicate the maintaner is not aware of this situation.

# apt-cache show libmemcached-tools | grep slap
   * memcslap - Generate testing loads on a memcached cluster

# dpkg -L libmemcached-tools | grep slap
/usr/share/man/man1/memcslap.1.gz

There is a bug already upstream, indicating that this binary does not compile:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/libmemcached/+bug/728462

[Leo Lara (leo-lara)]

I found out that if you have libevent-dev installed then, compiling the usual way the source package will compile and include memslap. It seems there is a problem with the dependencies.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Please reply if this is still an issue on a supported release.

[Charles Butler (lazypower)]

This is still an issue present in 13.10

ii libmemcached-tools 1.0.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Commandline tools for talking to memcached via libmemcached

charles@Bushido:~/cabs/precise/memslap$ type memslap
bash: type: memslap: not found

[Charles Butler (lazypower)]

Disregard, the command was memcslap. I clearly didn't read the helpful output:

$ memslap
No command 'memslap' found, did you mean:
 Command 'memcslap' from package 'libmemcached-tools' (main)