xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command not found

Introduction

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

xfce4-popup-whiskermenu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu: command not found

Solutions to xfce4-popup-whiskermenu: command not found

How To Fix xfce4-popup-whiskermenu: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xfce4-popup-whiskermenu is provided by xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin package.

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin is:

Whisker Menu is an alternate application launcher for Xfce. When you open it you are shown a list of applications you have marked as favorites. You can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side. Top level categories make browsing fast, and simple to switch between. Additionally, Whisker Menu keeps a list of the last ten applications that you’ve launched from it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

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

You can also use apt command to install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.

sudo apt -y install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

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

sudo aptitude install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.