9wm command not found

Introduction

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

9wm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: 9wm: command not found

Solutions to 9wm: command not found

How To Fix 9wm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu 9wm is provided by 9wm package.

9wm is:

It provides a very simple and clean user interface. It is click-to-type. It uses the X11 font system (which, unfortunately, means no Unicode support).

9wm does not provide virtual desktops, customization, key bindings, EWMH support, or compositing. It does not allocate any colors, which will be great news if you are stuck in 1993.

It is a great place to start if you are interested in writing a window manager from scratch: many folks have done exactly this.

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

sudo apt-get -y install 9wm

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

You can also use apt command to install 9wm.

sudo apt -y install 9wm

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

sudo aptitude install 9wm

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix 9wm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.