tmuxp command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix tmuxp command not found error message

Introduction

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

tmuxp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tmuxp: command not found

Solutions to tmuxp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tmuxp is provided by tmuxp package.

tmuxp is:

tmux session manager allowing both JSON and YAML configuration formats. Available features:

  • allows both simple and very elaborate configs
  • can store and load multiple sessions
  • can custom startup scripts (such as installing project dependencies before loading tmux)
  • session freezing: snapshot your current tmux layout, pane paths, and window/session names, and dump the result as a tmuxp configuration

This is a dependency package

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

sudo apt-get -y install tmuxp

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

You can also use apt command to install tmuxp.

sudo apt -y install tmuxp

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

sudo aptitude install tmuxp

Summary

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