grub-customizer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix grub-customizer command not found error message

Introduction

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

grub-customizer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: grub-customizer: command not found

Solutions to grub-customizer: command not found

How To Fix grub-customizer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu grub-customizer is provided by grub-customizer package.

grub-customizer is:

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure GRUB2 and BURG. It can do changes for settings and menuentries easily.

Grub Customizer has the following features:

  • Move, remove or rename menuentries (they stey updatable by update-grub).
  • Edit the contents of menuentries or create new ones (internally it edits the 40_custom file).
  • Provide reinstallation of the bootloader to MBR.
  • Allow make settings like default operating system, kernel params, background image, text colors, etc.
  • Allow one to change the installed operating system by running on a live CD/DVD or from an OS inside a flash drive.

Grub Customizer is useful for customizations and recovering actions over any Linux distribution.

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

sudo apt-get -y install grub-customizer

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

You can also use apt command to install grub-customizer.

sudo apt -y install grub-customizer

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

sudo aptitude install grub-customizer

Summary

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