welcome2l command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix welcome2l command not found error message

Introduction

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

welcome2l: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: welcome2l: command not found

Solutions to welcome2l: command not found

How To Fix welcome2l: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu welcome2l is provided by welcome2l package.

welcome2l is:

This is a little program that may run at login time to produce nice ANSI login logo.

Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens by making full usage of PC graphic characters.

Therefore an architecture able to display those characters (i386, Alpha with TGA adapter, …) is required to use it. And, even if it will work on larger screens, it will only produce 80 column ANSI screens.

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

sudo apt-get -y install welcome2l

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

You can also use apt command to install welcome2l.

sudo apt -y install welcome2l

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

sudo aptitude install welcome2l

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix welcome2l command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.