smd-applet command not found

Introduction

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

smd-applet: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smd-applet: command not found

Solutions to smd-applet: command not found

How To Fix smd-applet: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu smd-applet is provided by syncmaildir-applet package.

syncmaildir-applet is:

Sync Mail Dir is a set of utilities to synchronize a pair of mailboxes in Maildir format, using SSH to transfer data.

This package provides an applet that integrates smd-loop with GNOME; that is, it notifies the user with popups, starts smd-loop when the user logs in, and provides a simple user interface to deal with synchronization errors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install syncmaildir-applet

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

You can also use apt command to install syncmaildir-applet.

sudo apt -y install syncmaildir-applet

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

sudo aptitude install syncmaildir-applet

Summary

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