gcloseall command not found

Introduction

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

gcloseall: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gcloseall: command not found

Solutions to gcloseall: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gcloseall is provided by gnustep-gui-runtime package.

gnustep-gui-runtime is:

The GNUstep GUI Library is a powerful library of graphical user interface classes written completely in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon the OpenStep specification, and provide the user with a traditional nextstep-like look and feel.

This package contains the runtime support files needed by GNUstep GUI applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnustep-gui-runtime

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

You can also use apt command to install gnustep-gui-runtime.

sudo apt -y install gnustep-gui-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install gnustep-gui-runtime

Summary

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