xwrited command not found

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

Introduction

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

xwrited: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xwrited: command not found

Solutions to xwrited: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xwrited is provided by xwrited package.

xwrited is:

The xwrited utility displays write(1) and wall(1) messages as desktop notifications. A notification daemon compliant to the freedesktop.org Desktop Notification Specification draft needs to be running in order to display the notifications.

This utility is useful e.g. to send (forward) broadcast (wall) messages to all users from cronjobs or system daemons.

The xwrited daemon is automatically started for each new X session after the installation of this package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xwrited

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

You can also use apt command to install xwrited.

sudo apt -y install xwrited

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

sudo aptitude install xwrited

Summary

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