imwheel command not found

Introduction

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

imwheel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: imwheel: command not found

Solutions to imwheel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu imwheel is provided by imwheel package.

imwheel is:

Many mice have side or “thumb” buttons that see limited use in Linux, as well as a wheel that is not used by many older applications.

IMWheel supports these non-standard buttons and/or wheel operations by allowing the user to map their input to specific key combinations depending on the application in use.

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

sudo apt-get -y install imwheel

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

You can also use apt command to install imwheel.

sudo apt -y install imwheel

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

sudo aptitude install imwheel

Summary

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