spotlighter command not found

Introduction

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

spotlighter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spotlighter: command not found

Solutions to spotlighter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spotlighter is provided by spotlighter package.

spotlighter is:

Spotlighter is a tool that shows a movable and resizable spotlight on the desktop screen. This is especially useful when making presentations, to highlight point of interest.

Spotlighter is XInput-Aware, so you can use it with a graphic tablet or a whiteboard.

This program has been implemented for educational purposes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spotlighter

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

You can also use apt command to install spotlighter.

sudo apt -y install spotlighter

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

sudo aptitude install spotlighter

Summary

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