gpaint command not found

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

Introduction

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

gpaint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gpaint: command not found

Solutions to gpaint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gpaint is provided by gpaint package.

gpaint is:

This is gpaint (GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of ‘Paintbrush’ from a popular non-free operating system.

Currently gpaint has the following features:

  • Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes.
  • Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.
  • Preliminary print support using gnome-print.
  • Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes.
  • Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program.
  • All the image processing features present in xpaint.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpaint

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

You can also use apt command to install gpaint.

sudo apt -y install gpaint

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

sudo aptitude install gpaint

Summary

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