gshutdown command not found

Introduction

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

gshutdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gshutdown: command not found

Solutions to gshutdown: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gshutdown is provided by gshutdown package.

gshutdown is:

GShutdown is a utility which allows you to schedule the shutdown or restart of your computer. With it you can simply and quickly choose the turn off time at either a specific time or after a countdown.

The graphical user interface uses Gtk+2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gshutdown

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

You can also use apt command to install gshutdown.

sudo apt -y install gshutdown

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

sudo aptitude install gshutdown

Summary

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