xstarfish command not found

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

Introduction

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

xstarfish: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xstarfish: command not found

Solutions to xstarfish: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xstarfish is provided by xstarfish package.

xstarfish is:

XStarfish generates colourful, tiled images for your background using random numbers fed through mathematical functions. It does not use source image files, so it can generate its images nearly forever without running out of material.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xstarfish

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

You can also use apt command to install xstarfish.

sudo apt -y install xstarfish

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

sudo aptitude install xstarfish

Summary

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