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Suspecting that it's not installed I tried again: 

sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnome-tweak-tool is already the newest version (3.28.1-1).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  app-install-data apt-xapian-index couchdb-common libnih-dbus1
  libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-scripttools libqt4-svg libqt4-test
  libqtassistantclient4 python-apt python-aptdaemon
  python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python-attr python-automat python-blinker
  python-click python-colorama python-constantly python-cups python-debian
  python-defer python-dirspec python-httplib2 python-hyperlink
  python-incremental python-jwt python-oauthlib python-pam
  python-piston-mini-client python-pycurl python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus
  python-serial python-twisted-bin python-xapian python-xdg
  python-zope.interface python3-piston-mini-client python3-xapian
  software-center-aptdaemon-plugins
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

I also tried installing my computer with no difference. I still get: 

gnome-tweak-tool: command not found

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04

How do I actually start gnome-tweak-tool?

Alex
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In Ubuntu 18.04 aka Bionic Beaver the gnome-tweak-tool is a transitional package which is used to pull in a different package, in your case gnome-tweaks to make upgrades more smooth when a package name had to be renamed. For whatever reasons...

You can see this information when using apt-cache show gnome-tweak-tool. The Depends: line is the package that is pulled in.

So to run it, just enter gnome-tweaks or use dpkg -L gnome-tweaks to list the files that are shipped with that package.

Thomas
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The gnome-tweak-tools package provides the binary, gnome-tweaks. If you check out the package's details, either in the CLI or through Ubuntu Packages Website you can see this, where it shows the package provides gnome-tweaks.

You should be able to run gnome-tweaks, and the command will be found.

Using the package information, but also installing bash-completion, and using your TAB in the terminal, will help you figure these things out a bit faster. Here, you could have typed gnome-TABTAB, and gotten a list of available commands, showing gnome-tweaks.

earthmeLon
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