xhotswap command not found

Introduction

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

xhotswap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xhotswap: command not found

Solutions to xhotswap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xhotswap is provided by hotswap-gui package.

hotswap-gui is:

Hotswap is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting it. eg. Dell Laptops.

Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices.

This package includes the Motif front-end to the command line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hotswap-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install hotswap-gui.

sudo apt -y install hotswap-gui

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

sudo aptitude install hotswap-gui

Summary

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