mesa-overlay-control.py command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mesa-overlay-control.py command not found error message

Introduction

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

mesa-overlay-control.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mesa-overlay-control.py: command not found

In Ubuntu mesa-overlay-control.py is provided by mesa-vulkan-drivers package.

mesa-vulkan-drivers is:

Vulkan is a low-overhead 3D graphics and compute API. This package includes Vulkan drivers provided by the Mesa project.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mesa-vulkan-drivers

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

You can also use apt command to install mesa-vulkan-drivers.

sudo apt -y install mesa-vulkan-drivers

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

sudo aptitude install mesa-vulkan-drivers

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