osdctl command not found

Introduction

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

osdctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osdctl: command not found

Solutions to osdctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu osdctl is provided by osdsh package.

osdsh is:

OSDsh is a little program that overlays system information using the XOSD library. OSDsh was originally based on osdd and provides features like:

• It is able to display a clock.
• Shows the volume levels of the soundcard when changing.
• Tells you if you are on- or off-line, and the time you were connected.
• Shows the battery status and
• shows any message you want it to.

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

sudo apt-get -y install osdsh

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

You can also use apt command to install osdsh.

sudo apt -y install osdsh

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

sudo aptitude install osdsh

Summary

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