guacctl command not found

Introduction

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

guacctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guacctl: command not found

Solutions to guacctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu guacctl is provided by guacd package.

guacd is:

Guacamole is an HTML5 web application that provides access to a desktop environment using remote desktop protocols. A centralized server acts as a tunnel and proxy, allowing access to multiple desktops through a web browser. No plugins are needed: the client requires nothing more than a web browser supporting HTML5 and AJAX.

The Guacamole proxy daemon, guacd, translates between remote desktop protocols (like VNC) and the Guacamole protocol using protocol plugins. Once a user is authenticated with the Guacamole web application, a tunnel is established through the web application to guacd, allowing the JavaScript client to communicate to an arbitrary remote desktop server through guacd.

This package contains the daemon binary.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guacd

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

You can also use apt command to install guacd.

sudo apt -y install guacd

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

sudo aptitude install guacd

Summary

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