libinput command not found

Introduction

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

libinput: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libinput: command not found

Solutions to libinput: command not found

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

In Ubuntu libinput is provided by libinput-tools package.

libinput-tools is:

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction to minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput needs to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.

This package includes the command line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libinput-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libinput-tools.

sudo apt -y install libinput-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libinput-tools

Summary

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