nitrogen command not found

Introduction

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

nitrogen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nitrogen: command not found

Solutions to nitrogen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nitrogen is provided by nitrogen package.

nitrogen is:

nitrogen is a graphical wallpaper utility that can be used in two modes, browser and recall. Some of the things to look for in nitrogen are:

• Multihead and Xinerama support (setting different wallpapers for each monitor)
• Recall mode to restore wallpapers via startup script
• Uses freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails
• Can set GNOME background
• Command line set modes for script usage
• Inotify monitoring of browsed directories

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

sudo apt-get -y install nitrogen

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

You can also use apt command to install nitrogen.

sudo apt -y install nitrogen

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

sudo aptitude install nitrogen

Summary

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