gol command not found

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

Introduction

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

gol: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gol: command not found

Solutions to gol: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gol is provided by growl-for-linux package.

growl-for-linux is:

Growl For Linux is a linux-compatible notification system of Growl. Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X. It uses GNTP (Growl Notification Transport Protocol) for notification.

Growl For Linux provides four kind of display styles - balloon, fog, libnotify and nico2. The display style is implemented as a plugin, so you can add a new display style if you want.

And more, Growl For Linux supports subscriber which will interact with other software. Currently Growl For Linux supports Rhythmbox.

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

sudo apt-get -y install growl-for-linux

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

You can also use apt command to install growl-for-linux.

sudo apt -y install growl-for-linux

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

sudo aptitude install growl-for-linux

Summary

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