cpupower-gui command not found

Introduction

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

cpupower-gui: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cpupower-gui: command not found

Solutions to cpupower-gui: command not found

How To Fix cpupower-gui: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cpupower-gui is provided by cpupower-gui package.

cpupower-gui is:

This utility can change the operating frequency of the CPU for each core separately. Additionally, the cpu governor can be changed. The program can detect offline cores and only present the available ones. Furthermore, if a core doesn’t support frequency scaling is not shown. There is also an option to apply the same settings to all cores simultaneously. To apply the settings, the user must be local and active, as well as in group sudo. Local and active users not in this group must authenticate themselves as admin in order to apply the settings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cpupower-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install cpupower-gui.

sudo apt -y install cpupower-gui

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

sudo aptitude install cpupower-gui

Summary

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