wmacpi command not found

Introduction

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

wmacpi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmacpi: command not found

Solutions to wmacpi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wmacpi is provided by wmacpi package.

wmacpi is:

This is a battery monitor that uses ACPI to query the battery status. This version should work with all recent kernels (vanilla > 2.4.21), both 2.4.x and 2.6.x.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmacpi

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

You can also use apt command to install wmacpi.

sudo apt -y install wmacpi

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

sudo aptitude install wmacpi

Summary

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