zeitgeist-daemon command not found

Introduction

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

zeitgeist-daemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zeitgeist-daemon: command not found

Solutions to zeitgeist-daemon: command not found

How To Fix zeitgeist-daemon: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu zeitgeist-daemon is provided by zeitgeist-core package.

zeitgeist-core is:

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user’s activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other applications.

It serves as a comprehensive activity log and also makes it possible to determine relationships between items based on usage patterns.

This package contains the main daemon (in its new Vala implementation, codenamed “Bluebird”). It also includes the FTS (Full Text Search) extension.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zeitgeist-core

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

You can also use apt command to install zeitgeist-core.

sudo apt -y install zeitgeist-core

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

sudo aptitude install zeitgeist-core

Summary

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