lxterminal command not found

Introduction

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

lxterminal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxterminal: command not found

Solutions to lxterminal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lxterminal is provided by lxterminal package.

lxterminal is:

LXTerminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).

It supports multiple tabs and has only minimal dependencies thus being completely desktop-independent. In order to reduce memory usage and increase the performance, all instances of the terminal are sharing a single process.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxterminal

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

You can also use apt command to install lxterminal.

sudo apt -y install lxterminal

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

sudo aptitude install lxterminal

Summary

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