weston command not found

Introduction

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

weston: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: weston: command not found

Solutions to weston: command not found

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

In Ubuntu weston is provided by weston package.

weston is:

Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install weston

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

You can also use apt command to install weston.

sudo apt -y install weston

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

sudo aptitude install weston

Summary

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