bumblebee-bugreport command not found

Introduction

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

bumblebee-bugreport: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bumblebee-bugreport: command not found

Solutions to bumblebee-bugreport: command not found

How To Fix bumblebee-bugreport: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bumblebee-bugreport is provided by bumblebee package.

bumblebee is:

Bumblebee is an effort to make NVIDIA Optimus enabled laptops work in GNU/Linux systems. These laptops are built in such a way that the NVIDIA graphics card can be used on demand so that battery life is improved and temperature is kept low.

It disables the discrete graphics card if no client is detected, and starts an X server making use of NVIDIA card if requested then let software GL implementations (such as VirtualGL) copy frames to the visible display that runs on the integrated graphics. The ability to use discrete graphics depends on the driver: open source nouveau and proprietary nvidia.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bumblebee

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

You can also use apt command to install bumblebee.

sudo apt -y install bumblebee

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

sudo aptitude install bumblebee

Summary

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