mate-about command not found

Introduction

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

mate-about: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-about: command not found

Solutions to mate-about: command not found

How To Fix mate-about: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-about is provided by mate-desktop package.

mate-desktop is:

The MATE component mate-desktop contains the libmate-desktop library, the mate-about program, as well as some desktop-wide documents.

The libmate-desktop library provides an API shared by several applications on the desktop, but that cannot live in the platform for various reasons.

The mate-about program helps with finding which version of MATE is installed.

NOTE: This package does not install the complete MATE desktop environment for you. The full desktop environment can be installed via the metapackage mate-desktop-environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-desktop

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-desktop.

sudo apt -y install mate-desktop

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

sudo aptitude install mate-desktop

Summary

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