dunstify command not found

Introduction

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

dunstify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dunstify: command not found

Solutions to dunstify: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dunstify is provided by dunst package.

dunst is:

Dunst is a highly configurable and lightweight notification-daemon: The only thing it displays is a colored box with unformatted text. The whole notification specification (non-optional parts and the “body” capability) is supported as long as it fits into this look & feel.

Dunst is designed to fit nicely into minimalistic windowmanagers like dwm, but it should work on any Linux desktop.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dunst

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

You can also use apt command to install dunst.

sudo apt -y install dunst

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

sudo aptitude install dunst

Summary

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