libevdev-tweak-device command not found

Introduction

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

libevdev-tweak-device: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libevdev-tweak-device: command not found

Solutions to libevdev-tweak-device: command not found

How To Fix libevdev-tweak-device: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu libevdev-tweak-device is provided by libevdev-tools package.

libevdev-tools is:

libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.

This package contains touchpad-edge-detector.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libevdev-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libevdev-tools.

sudo apt -y install libevdev-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libevdev-tools

Summary

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