startplasma-wayland command not found

Introduction

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

startplasma-wayland: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: startplasma-wayland: command not found

Solutions to startplasma-wayland: command not found

How To Fix startplasma-wayland: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu startplasma-wayland is provided by plasma-workspace-wayland package.

plasma-workspace-wayland is:

Plasma Workspace for KF5. Workspaces provide support for KDE Plasma Widgets, integrated search, hardware management and a high degree of customizability.

This package contains the Wayland session.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-workspace-wayland

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

You can also use apt command to install plasma-workspace-wayland.

sudo apt -y install plasma-workspace-wayland

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

sudo aptitude install plasma-workspace-wayland

Summary

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