wxpaste command not found

Introduction

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

wxpaste: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wxpaste: command not found

Solutions to wxpaste: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wxpaste is provided by wmaker-utils package.

wmaker-utils is:

Written by Alfredo Kojima almost from scratch, resembles the NeXTStep look very closely, and it is now an official GNU project. Window Maker (originally named WindowMaker) is not overloaded with features, and it is easier to configure than most other window managers. Its final goal is to produce a window manager that doesn’t require editing of configuration files. Window Maker is fast and doesn’t require tons of memory to run.

This package contains wxcopy and wxpaste, two utilities ordinarily shipped with Window Maker but not depending on it or any of its libraries. These utilities allow users to interact with cut buffers on the command line.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmaker-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install wmaker-utils.

sudo apt -y install wmaker-utils

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

sudo aptitude install wmaker-utils

Summary

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