inputplug command not found

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

Introduction

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

inputplug: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inputplug: command not found

Solutions to inputplug: command not found

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

In Ubuntu inputplug is provided by inputplug package.

inputplug is:

inputplug is a daemon which connects to a running X server and monitors its XInput hierarchy change events, such as an input device being attached or removed, enabled or disable etc, and runs some command when these events happen.

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

sudo apt-get -y install inputplug

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

You can also use apt command to install inputplug.

sudo apt -y install inputplug

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

sudo aptitude install inputplug

Summary

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