mate-volume-control command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mate-volume-control command not found error message

Introduction

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

mate-volume-control: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-volume-control: command not found

Solutions to mate-volume-control: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mate-volume-control is provided by mate-media package.

mate-media is:

MATE media utilities are the audio mixer and the volume control applet.

This package utilizes the libmatemixer library which provides support for ALSA and Pulseaudio as audio backends.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-media

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-media.

sudo apt -y install mate-media

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

sudo aptitude install mate-media

Summary

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