cairo-dock command not found

Introduction

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

cairo-dock: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cairo-dock: command not found

Solutions to cairo-dock: command not found

How To Fix cairo-dock: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cairo-dock is provided by cairo-dock-core package.

cairo-dock-core is:

Cairo-dock has a family-likeness with OS X dock, but with more options. It uses cairo to render nice graphics, and Glitz to use hardware acceleration. It’s fully configurable and can be a taskbar too. You can easily plug applets into it.

This package provides Cairo-dock-core application.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cairo-dock-core

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

You can also use apt command to install cairo-dock-core.

sudo apt -y install cairo-dock-core

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

sudo aptitude install cairo-dock-core

Summary

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