psd-overlay-helper command not found

Introduction

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

psd-overlay-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psd-overlay-helper: command not found

Solutions to psd-overlay-helper: command not found

How To Fix psd-overlay-helper: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu psd-overlay-helper is provided by profile-sync-daemon package.

profile-sync-daemon is:

Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage your browsers profile in tmpfs and periodically sync it back to disk.

This is accomplished by symlinking and the innovative use of rsync to maintain a backup and synchronization between tmpfs and disk. One of the major design goals of psd is a completely transparent user experience.

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

sudo apt-get -y install profile-sync-daemon

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

You can also use apt command to install profile-sync-daemon.

sudo apt -y install profile-sync-daemon

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

sudo aptitude install profile-sync-daemon

Summary

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