plymouthd command not found

Introduction

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

plymouthd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plymouthd: command not found

Solutions to plymouthd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plymouthd is provided by plymouth package.

plymouth is:

Plymouth provides a boot-time I/O multiplexing framework - the most obvious use for which is to provide an attractive graphical animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown during boot. (The messages are instead redirected to a logfile for later viewing.) However, in event-driven boot systems Plymouth can also usefully handle user interaction such as password prompts for encrypted file systems.

This package provides the basic framework, enabling a text-mode animation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plymouth

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

You can also use apt command to install plymouth.

sudo apt -y install plymouth

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

sudo aptitude install plymouth

Summary

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