mate-cpufreq-selector command not found

Introduction

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

mate-cpufreq-selector: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-cpufreq-selector: command not found

Solutions to mate-cpufreq-selector: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mate-cpufreq-selector is provided by mate-applets package.

mate-applets is:

accessx-status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings, including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.

Battstat: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.

Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.

MATE CPUFreq Applet: CPU frequency scaling monitor

Drivemount: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.

Geyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.

Keyboard layout switcher: lets you assign different keyboard layouts for different locales.

Netspeed: network traffic monitor applet.

System monitor: CPU, memory, network, swap file and resource.

Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.

Weather report: downloads weather information from the U.S National Weather Service (NWS) servers, including the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN).

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-applets

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

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

sudo apt -y install mate-applets

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

sudo aptitude install mate-applets

Summary

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