growl command not found

Introduction

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

growl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: growl: command not found

Solutions to growl: command not found

How To Fix growl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu growl is provided by ruby-growl package.

ruby-growl is:

A pure-ruby growl notifier for UDP and GNTP growl protocols. ruby-growl allows you to perform Growl notifications from machines without growl installed (for example, non-OSX machines).

What is growl? Growl is a really cool “global notification system originally for Mac OS X”.

You can receive Growl notifications on various platforms and send them from any machine that runs Ruby.

ruby-growl also contains a command-line notification tool named ‘growl’. It is almost completely option-compatible with growlnotify. (All except for -p is supported, use –priority instead.)

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-growl

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-growl.

sudo apt -y install ruby-growl

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-growl

Summary

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