xfce4-popup-places command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix xfce4-popup-places command not found error message

Introduction

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

xfce4-popup-places: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xfce4-popup-places: command not found

Solutions to xfce4-popup-places: command not found

How To Fix xfce4-popup-places: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xfce4-popup-places is provided by xfce4-places-plugin package.

xfce4-places-plugin is:

This plugin brings much of the functionality of GNOME’s Places menu to Xfce. It puts a simple button on the panel. Clicking on this button opens up a menu with 4 sections:

  • System-defined directories (home folder, trash, desktop, file system)
  • Removable media (using thunar-vfs)
  • User-defined bookmarks (reads ~/.gtk-bookmarks)
  • Recent documents submenu

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfce4-places-plugin

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

You can also use apt command to install xfce4-places-plugin.

sudo apt -y install xfce4-places-plugin

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

sudo aptitude install xfce4-places-plugin

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xfce4-popup-places command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.