backstep command not found

Introduction

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

backstep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: backstep: command not found

Solutions to backstep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu backstep is provided by backstep package.

backstep is:

Backstep is a program that draws icons for minimized windows on your desktop. It doesn’t depend on the window manager or on a desktop-drawing program. It is meant to work with window managers that are EWHM compliant.

Known Window Manager Support: * Metacity: known for sure to work * Xfwm4: known for sure to work * Fluxbox: known not to work * Kwin: partial support * Other: untested

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

sudo apt-get -y install backstep

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

You can also use apt command to install backstep.

sudo apt -y install backstep

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

sudo aptitude install backstep

Summary

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