spectrwm command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix spectrwm command not found error message

Introduction

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

spectrwm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spectrwm: command not found

Solutions to spectrwm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spectrwm is provided by spectrwm package.

spectrwm is:

spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.

It is written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spectrwm

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

You can also use apt command to install spectrwm.

sudo apt -y install spectrwm

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

sudo aptitude install spectrwm

Summary

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