arctica-greeter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix arctica-greeter command not found error message

Introduction

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

arctica-greeter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arctica-greeter: command not found

Solutions to arctica-greeter: command not found

How To Fix arctica-greeter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu arctica-greeter is provided by arctica-greeter package.

arctica-greeter is:

A greeter shell for the LightDM login manager. Arctica Greeter can be used as local display manager as well as thin client login manager.

Arctica Greeter has been forked from Ubuntu’s Unity Greeter with focus on keeping remote logon support a maintained feature and provide a user interface based on Ayatana Indicators.

Arctica Greeter can be extended with various features:

  • remote logon support against RDP, Arctica and X2Go Servers
  • guest session support
  • various themes available / providable

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

sudo apt-get -y install arctica-greeter

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

You can also use apt command to install arctica-greeter.

sudo apt -y install arctica-greeter

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

sudo aptitude install arctica-greeter

Summary

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