cinnamon-unlock-desktop command not found

Introduction

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

cinnamon-unlock-desktop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cinnamon-unlock-desktop: command not found

Solutions to cinnamon-unlock-desktop: command not found

How To Fix cinnamon-unlock-desktop: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cinnamon-unlock-desktop is provided by cinnamon-screensaver package.

cinnamon-screensaver is:

cinnamon-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane and secure defaults, and be well integrated with the Cinnamon desktop.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-screensaver

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

You can also use apt command to install cinnamon-screensaver.

sudo apt -y install cinnamon-screensaver

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

sudo aptitude install cinnamon-screensaver

Summary

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