sawfish command not found

Introduction

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

sawfish: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sawfish: command not found

Solutions to sawfish: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sawfish is provided by sawfish package.

sawfish is:

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language. All window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp language.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sawfish

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

You can also use apt command to install sawfish.

sudo apt -y install sawfish

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

sudo aptitude install sawfish

Summary

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