nvidia-settings command not found

Introduction

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

nvidia-settings: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found

Solutions to nvidia-settings: command not found

How To Fix nvidia-settings: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nvidia-settings is provided by nvidia-settings package.

nvidia-settings is:

The nvidia-settings utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension.

Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature, and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-settings

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

You can also use apt command to install nvidia-settings.

sudo apt -y install nvidia-settings

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

sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings

Summary

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