nvidia-xconfig command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nvidia-xconfig command not found error message

Introduction

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

nvidia-xconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvidia-xconfig: command not found

In Ubuntu nvidia-xconfig is provided by nvidia-utils-390 package.

nvidia-utils-390 is:

This package contains supporting binaries for the NVIDIA driver.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-utils-390

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

You can also use apt command to install nvidia-utils-390.

sudo apt -y install nvidia-utils-390

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

sudo aptitude install nvidia-utils-390

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