emerald command not found

Introduction

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

emerald: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emerald: command not found

Solutions to emerald: command not found

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

In Ubuntu emerald is provided by emerald package.

emerald is:

Emerald is a window decorator for the Compiz window manager, using a custom theme format (*.emerald). It is highly customizable and supports different theme engines, with transparency and precise placement of borders and window title elements.

This package provides a decorator for compiz and a themer application.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emerald

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

You can also use apt command to install emerald.

sudo apt -y install emerald

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

sudo aptitude install emerald

Summary

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