lxsession-edit command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix lxsession-edit command not found error message

Introduction

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

lxsession-edit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxsession-edit: command not found

In Ubuntu lxsession-edit is provided by lxsession-edit package.

lxsession-edit is:

LXSession-Edit is a simple session editor GUI for autostarting applications which follows autostart specs from FreeDesktop.Org.

This package can be used without lxsession package as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxsession-edit

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

You can also use apt command to install lxsession-edit.

sudo apt -y install lxsession-edit

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

sudo aptitude install lxsession-edit

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