maim command not found

Introduction

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

maim: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maim: command not found

Solutions to maim: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maim is provided by maim package.

maim is:

maim (make image) takes screenshots of your desktop. It has options to take only a region, and relies on another program called slop to query the user for regions using the graphical interface.

maim is command line tool that is supposed to be an improved scrot.

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

sudo apt-get -y install maim

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

You can also use apt command to install maim.

sudo apt -y install maim

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

sudo aptitude install maim

Summary

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