prime-switch command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix prime-switch command not found error message

Introduction

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

prime-switch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prime-switch: command not found

In Ubuntu prime-switch is provided by nvidia-prime package.

nvidia-prime is:

This is a set of tools which will enable NVIDIA’s Prime on MUXless systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-prime

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

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

sudo apt -y install nvidia-prime

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

sudo aptitude install nvidia-prime

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