sprop command not found

Introduction

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

sprop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sprop: command not found

Solutions to sprop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sprop is provided by suckless-tools package.

suckless-tools is:

This package provides simple commands designed to be used with a minimalistic window manager like dwm but they can be useful in scripts regardless of the window manager used.

• dmenu: Dynamic menu is a generic menu for X.
• lsw: Lists the titles of all running X windows to stdout, similar to ls(1).
• slock: Simple X display locker that locks the X session.
• sprop: Sets or gets X window properties.
• sselp: Simple X selection printer that prints the X selection to stdout.
• ssid: Simple setsid replacement.
• swarp: Simple X warping tool to warp the mouse pointer to a given position.
• tabbed: Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications.
• wmname: Prints/sets the window manager name property of the root window similar to how hostname(1) behaves.
• xssstate: Retrieves the state of X screensaver.

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

sudo apt-get -y install suckless-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install suckless-tools.

sudo apt -y install suckless-tools

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

sudo aptitude install suckless-tools

Summary

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