wofi command not found

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

Introduction

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

wofi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wofi: command not found

Solutions to wofi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wofi is provided by wofi package.

wofi is:

wofi is an application launcher and menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway. It brings support for three built-in modes:

  • drun - launch XDG Desktop files
  • run - launch executables from $PATH
  • dmenu - dmenu-compatabile mode to read lines from stdin

Wofi is easily themeable with the help of CSS style sheets.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wofi

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

You can also use apt command to install wofi.

sudo apt -y install wofi

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

sudo aptitude install wofi

Summary

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