gnome-system-monitor command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-system-monitor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-system-monitor: command not found

Solutions to gnome-system-monitor: command not found

How To Fix gnome-system-monitor: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-system-monitor is provided by gnome-system-monitor package.

gnome-system-monitor is:

This package allows you to graphically view and manipulate the running processes on your system. It also provides an overview of available resources such as CPU and memory.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-system-monitor

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-system-monitor.

sudo apt -y install gnome-system-monitor

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-system-monitor

Summary

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