awesome-client command not found

Introduction

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

awesome-client: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: awesome-client: command not found

Solutions to awesome-client: command not found

How To Fix awesome-client: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu awesome-client is provided by awesome package.

awesome is:

awesome manages windows dynamically in floating or tiled layouts. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers, and all those dealing with everyday computing tasks and looking for fine-grained control over their graphical environment.

It is highly extensible and scriptable via the Lua programming language, providing an easy-to-use and very well documented API to configure its behavior.

awesome uses tags instead of workspaces, which gives better flexibility in displaying windows, and can be entirely keyboard-driven, not needing a mouse. It also supports multi-headed configurations; uses XCB instead of Xlib for better performance; implements many freedesktop standards; and can be controlled over D-Bus from awesome-client.

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

sudo apt-get -y install awesome

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

You can also use apt command to install awesome.

sudo apt -y install awesome

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

sudo aptitude install awesome

Summary

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