wmcliphist command not found

Introduction

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

wmcliphist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmcliphist: command not found

Solutions to wmcliphist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wmcliphist is provided by wmcliphist package.

wmcliphist is:

wmcliphist is a dockable application for Window Maker. It keeps a history of clipboard operations and allows you to put previously copied items back to clipboard for pasting to other applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmcliphist

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

You can also use apt command to install wmcliphist.

sudo apt -y install wmcliphist

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

sudo aptitude install wmcliphist

Summary

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