sawfish-mate-session command not found

Introduction

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

sawfish-mate-session: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sawfish-mate-session: command not found

Solutions to sawfish-mate-session: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sawfish-mate-session 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-mate-session command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.