fdclock command not found

Introduction

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

fdclock: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fdclock: command not found

Solutions to fdclock: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fdclock is provided by fdclock package.

fdclock is:

fdclock is a clock to show off many of Cairo’s features: it features scalable widgets (including a scalable freedesktop.org logo as the background), and transparency. When used with an X server that supports the Composite extension, you will be able to see proper transparency for the clock, and note how the hands/dots/etc cast darker individual shadows than the rest.

This package comes from the freedesktop.org git module: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/fdclock The module name is fdclock.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdclock

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

You can also use apt command to install fdclock.

sudo apt -y install fdclock

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

sudo aptitude install fdclock

Summary

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