pw-mon command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pw-mon command not found error message

Introduction

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

pw-mon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pw-mon: command not found

Solutions to pw-mon: command not found

How To Fix pw-mon: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pw-mon is provided by pipewire-bin package.

pipewire-bin is:

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

  • Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
  • Accessing sources of video for consumption.
  • Generating graphs for audio and video processing.

This package contains the server and command-line utilities, and should not normally be depended on directly. PipeWire clients should depend on the pipewire package instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install pipewire-bin.

sudo apt -y install pipewire-bin

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

sudo aptitude install pipewire-bin

Summary

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