deskmenu command not found

Introduction

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

deskmenu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: deskmenu: command not found

Solutions to deskmenu: command not found

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

In Ubuntu deskmenu is provided by deskmenu package.

deskmenu is:

DeskMenu is a root menu program which is activated by clicking the root window. It is configured from a .deskmenurc file in your home directory. DeskMenu is useful for window managers which do not provide a menu such as Oroborus.

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

sudo apt-get -y install deskmenu

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

You can also use apt command to install deskmenu.

sudo apt -y install deskmenu

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

sudo aptitude install deskmenu

Summary

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