polybar command not found

Introduction

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

polybar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: polybar: command not found

Solutions to polybar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu polybar is provided by polybar package.

polybar is:

Polybar aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.

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

sudo apt-get -y install polybar

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

You can also use apt command to install polybar.

sudo apt -y install polybar

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

sudo aptitude install polybar

Summary

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