gtk-chtheme command not found

Introduction

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

gtk-chtheme: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gtk-chtheme: command not found

Solutions to gtk-chtheme: command not found

How To Fix gtk-chtheme: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gtk-chtheme is provided by gtk-chtheme package.

gtk-chtheme is:

‘Gtk Theme Switch’ based utility that aims to make themes previews and selections as slick as possible. Themes installed on the system are presented for selection and previewed on the fly.

This utility was develop only to work for GTK+ 2.x themes. For GTK+ 1.x themes use ‘gtk-theme-switch’ package

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

sudo apt-get -y install gtk-chtheme

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

You can also use apt command to install gtk-chtheme.

sudo apt -y install gtk-chtheme

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

sudo aptitude install gtk-chtheme

Summary

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