budgie-wm command not found

Introduction

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

budgie-wm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: budgie-wm: command not found

Solutions to budgie-wm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu budgie-wm is provided by budgie-core package.

budgie-core is:

Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.

This is the base package for budgie-desktop. This package provides: GNOME Network Manager autostart file specifically for Budgie budgie-desktop plugins locales and icons for budgie-desktop budgie-desktop executables GLib schemas for budgie-desktop Session file for budgie-desktop

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

sudo apt-get -y install budgie-core

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

You can also use apt command to install budgie-core.

sudo apt -y install budgie-core

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

sudo aptitude install budgie-core

Summary

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