wmshutdown command not found

Introduction

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

wmshutdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmshutdown: command not found

Solutions to wmshutdown: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wmshutdown is provided by wmshutdown package.

wmshutdown is:

This is a dock applications for Window Maker that allows you to shutdown or reboot your machine just by clickig a button on desktop and confirming. It’s useful just for desktop machines.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmshutdown

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

You can also use apt command to install wmshutdown.

sudo apt -y install wmshutdown

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

sudo aptitude install wmshutdown

Summary

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