gnome-boxes command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gnome-boxes command not found error message

Introduction

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

gnome-boxes: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-boxes: command not found

In Ubuntu gnome-boxes is provided by gnome-boxes package.

gnome-boxes is:

GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.

Hardware virtualization is required.

Previously, GNOME Boxes could also be used to connect to remote computers, but that feature is now provided by the GNOME Connections app.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-boxes

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-boxes.

sudo apt -y install gnome-boxes

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-boxes

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