swayimg command not found

Introduction

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

swayimg: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: swayimg: command not found

Solutions to swayimg: command not found

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

In Ubuntu swayimg is provided by swayimg package.

swayimg is:

The program uses Sway IPC to determine the geometry of the currently focused container. This data is used to calculate the position and size of the new “overlay” window that will be used to draw the image. In the next step, swayimg adds two Sway rules for the self window: “floating enable” and “move position”. Then it creates a new Wayland window and draws the image from the specified file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install swayimg

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

You can also use apt command to install swayimg.

sudo apt -y install swayimg

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

sudo aptitude install swayimg

Summary

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