powerline-render command not found

Introduction

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

powerline-render: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: powerline-render: command not found

Solutions to powerline-render: command not found

How To Fix powerline-render: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu powerline-render is provided by powerline package.

powerline is:

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

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

sudo apt-get -y install powerline

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

You can also use apt command to install powerline.

sudo apt -y install powerline

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

sudo aptitude install powerline

Summary

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