glxinfo command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix glxinfo command not found error message

Introduction

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

glxinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glxinfo: command not found

In Ubuntu glxinfo is provided by mesa-utils package.

mesa-utils is:

This package provides several basic GL utilities built by Mesa, including glxinfo and glxgears.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mesa-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install mesa-utils.

sudo apt -y install mesa-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mesa-utils

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