exo-desktop-item-edit command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix exo-desktop-item-edit command not found error message

Introduction

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

exo-desktop-item-edit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exo-desktop-item-edit: command not found

In Ubuntu exo-desktop-item-edit is provided by exo-utils package.

exo-utils is:

This package contains the Xfce settings plugin and the utility files for libexo-2-0 which are:

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

sudo apt-get -y install exo-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install exo-utils

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

sudo aptitude install exo-utils

In this tutorial we learn how to fix exo-desktop-item-edit command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.