compiz-boxmenu-vplist command not found

Introduction

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

compiz-boxmenu-vplist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: compiz-boxmenu-vplist: command not found

Solutions to compiz-boxmenu-vplist: command not found

How To Fix compiz-boxmenu-vplist: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu compiz-boxmenu-vplist is provided by compiz-boxmenu package.

compiz-boxmenu is:

Boxmenu provides a number of different menus to the compositing window manager Compiz and possibly to other window managers as well.

It is composed of a daemon that caches the different menus from various sources, following desktop standards and a number of clients to ask the daemon for a specific type of menu, clients that can be bound to different key-chords and mouse events using the Compizconfig Settings Manager.

The components are compiz-boxmenu, compiz-boxmenu-editor, a menu editor and compiz-boxmenu-{daemon,dlist,dplist,vplist,wlist}, where the specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, viewports and windows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install compiz-boxmenu

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

You can also use apt command to install compiz-boxmenu.

sudo apt -y install compiz-boxmenu

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

sudo aptitude install compiz-boxmenu

Summary

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