screengrab command not found

Introduction

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

screengrab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: screengrab: command not found

Solutions to screengrab: command not found

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

In Ubuntu screengrab is provided by screengrab package.

screengrab is:

Screengrab working in Linux and Windows. The program uses Qt and is independent of any desktop environment. Main features:

• Get desktop screenshots
• Get active window screenshots
• Get secreenshots of desktop selection area
• Copy screenshot to clipboard
• Saving your image files in formats PNG or JPEG or BMP
• Ability to set delay in getting screenshots (from 1 to 90 seconds)

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

sudo apt-get -y install screengrab

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

You can also use apt command to install screengrab.

sudo apt -y install screengrab

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

sudo aptitude install screengrab

Summary

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