idesk command not found

Introduction

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

idesk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: idesk: command not found

Solutions to idesk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu idesk is provided by idesk package.

idesk is:

Idesk displays icons with a short description on the desktop and gives shortcuts to launch any X app.

The icons can be resized, use tooltip and has transparency with other nice image effects. It can use many images types formats how PNG, JPG, GIF, XPM, etc. Idesk also allows the binding of different actions to every mouse button.

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

sudo apt-get -y install idesk

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

You can also use apt command to install idesk.

sudo apt -y install idesk

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

sudo aptitude install idesk

Summary

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