mate-notification-properties command not found

Introduction

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

mate-notification-properties: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-notification-properties: command not found

Solutions to mate-notification-properties: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mate-notification-properties is provided by mate-notification-daemon package.

mate-notification-daemon is:

mate-notification-daemon displays passive popup notifications, as per the Desktop Notifications Specification.

The Desktop Notifications Specification provides a standard way of doing passive popup notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time, as per the Desktop Notifications spec.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-notification-daemon

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-notification-daemon.

sudo apt -y install mate-notification-daemon

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

sudo aptitude install mate-notification-daemon

Summary

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