metacity command not found

Introduction

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

metacity: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: metacity: command not found

Solutions to metacity: command not found

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

In Ubuntu metacity is provided by metacity package.

metacity is:

Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK to do everything.

As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”

This package contains the core binaries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install metacity

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

You can also use apt command to install metacity.

sudo apt -y install metacity

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

sudo aptitude install metacity

Summary

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