waybar command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix waybar command not found error message

Introduction

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

waybar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: waybar: command not found

Solutions to waybar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu waybar is provided by waybar package.

waybar is:

Waybar is a highly customizable wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. It features applets displaying information about Sway (Workspaces, Binding mode, Focused window name), Local time, Battery, Network, Pulseaudio, Memory, Cpu load average and custom scripts

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

sudo apt-get -y install waybar

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

You can also use apt command to install waybar.

sudo apt -y install waybar

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

sudo aptitude install waybar

Summary

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