vdesk command not found

Introduction

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

vdesk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vdesk: command not found

Solutions to vdesk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vdesk is provided by vdesk package.

vdesk is:

vdesk takes the task of managing virtual desktops away from the window manager and implements an easy to use interface to those desktops. Aimed to be used in lightweight window managers that do not provide the functionality natively.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vdesk

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

You can also use apt command to install vdesk.

sudo apt -y install vdesk

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

sudo aptitude install vdesk

Summary

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