swaylock command not found

Introduction

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

swaylock: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: swaylock: command not found

Solutions to swaylock: command not found

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

In Ubuntu swaylock is provided by swaylock package.

swaylock is:

swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the following Wayland protocols: wlr-layer-shell, wlr-input-inhibitor, xdg-output, xdg-shell

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

sudo apt-get -y install swaylock

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

You can also use apt command to install swaylock.

sudo apt -y install swaylock

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

sudo aptitude install swaylock

Summary

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