picom command not found

Introduction

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

picom: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: picom: command not found

Solutions to picom: command not found

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

In Ubuntu picom is provided by picom package.

picom is:

picom is a compositor for X11, based on xcompmgr. In addition to shadows, fading and translucency, picom implements window frame opacity control, inactive window transparency, and shadows on argb windows.

picom is a fork of compton as it seems to have become unmaintained.

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

sudo apt-get -y install picom

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

You can also use apt command to install picom.

sudo apt -y install picom

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

sudo aptitude install picom

Summary

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