update-grub-gfxpayload command not found

Introduction

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

update-grub-gfxpayload: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-grub-gfxpayload: command not found

Solutions to update-grub-gfxpayload: command not found

How To Fix update-grub-gfxpayload: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-grub-gfxpayload is provided by grub-gfxpayload-lists package.

grub-gfxpayload-lists is:

The ‘set gfxpayload=keep’ facility in GRUB provides smooth graphical handover to the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, this does not work on all systems, resulting in a black or corrupt display. This package provides a blacklist of PCI IDs which fail.

We maintain this separately from GRUB because it is likely to be updated on a different schedule.

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

sudo apt-get -y install grub-gfxpayload-lists

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

You can also use apt command to install grub-gfxpayload-lists.

sudo apt -y install grub-gfxpayload-lists

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

sudo aptitude install grub-gfxpayload-lists

Summary

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