notify command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix notify command not found error message

Introduction

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

notify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: notify: command not found

In Ubuntu notify is provided by ruby-notify package.

ruby-notify is:

The “notify” provides a function to notify on cross platform. Notify supports the following features:

In Debian, “notify” command is simple wrapper to execute “notify-send”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-notify

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-notify.

sudo apt -y install ruby-notify

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-notify

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