mate-at-properties command not found

Introduction

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

mate-at-properties: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-at-properties: command not found

Solutions to mate-at-properties: command not found

How To Fix mate-at-properties: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-at-properties is provided by mate-control-center package.

mate-control-center is:

The MATE control center contains configuration applets for the MATE desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other MATE parameters.

It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the MATE panel or the Caja file manager.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-control-center

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-control-center.

sudo apt -y install mate-control-center

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

sudo aptitude install mate-control-center

Summary

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