polybar-msg command not found

Introduction

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

polybar-msg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: polybar-msg: command not found

Solutions to polybar-msg: command not found

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

In Ubuntu polybar-msg 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-msg command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.