ydotool command not found

Introduction

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

ydotool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ydotool: command not found

Solutions to ydotool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ydotool is provided by ydotool package.

ydotool is:

Generic Linux command-line automation tool

ydotool works differently from xdotool. xdotool sends X events directly to X server, while ydotool uses the uinput framework of Linux kernel to emulate an input device.

When ydotool runs and creates an virtual input device, it will take some time for your graphical environment (X11/Wayland) to recognize and enable the virtual input device. (Usually done by udev)

This package contains the command-line utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ydotool

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

You can also use apt command to install ydotool.

sudo apt -y install ydotool

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

sudo aptitude install ydotool

Summary

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