sddm command not found

Introduction

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

sddm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sddm: command not found

Solutions to sddm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sddm is provided by sddm package.

sddm is:

SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sddm

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

You can also use apt command to install sddm.

sudo apt -y install sddm

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

sudo aptitude install sddm

Summary

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