yakuake command not found

Introduction

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

yakuake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yakuake: command not found

Solutions to yakuake: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yakuake is provided by yakuake package.

yakuake is:

YaKuake is inspired from the terminal in the Quake game: when you press a key (by default F12, but that can be changed) a terminal window slides down from the top of the screen. Press the key again, and the terminal slides back.

It is faster than a keyboard shortcut because it is already loaded into memory and as such is very useful to anyone who frequently finds themselves switching in and out of terminal sessions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yakuake

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

You can also use apt command to install yakuake.

sudo apt -y install yakuake

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

sudo aptitude install yakuake

Summary

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