pconsole-ssh command not found

Introduction

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

pconsole-ssh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pconsole-ssh: command not found

Solutions to pconsole-ssh: command not found

How To Fix pconsole-ssh: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pconsole-ssh is provided by pconsole package.

pconsole is:

pconsole allows you to connect to each node of your cluster (e.g. via ssh or rsh) simultaneously by spawning one terminal per host or job. Alternatively you can even connect to already existing terminal sessions.

You can type your administrative commands either in a specialized window that ‘multiplies’ the input to each of the connections you have opened or use each of the connected terminals in case one host or job needs some additional commands to be typed.

pconsole is best run from within X Window, although it is possible to employ it without X (in console mode) as well. You need to install pconsole on only 1 machine in the cluster, this would usually be your central administrative node.

pconsole’s X automatisms work well with window-managers which offer a smart placement mode without resizing new windows or with a tiling mode which resizes all windows to the same size.

It is known to work very well with FVWM and has proven less usable with Awesome or Ratpoison. For usage with window-managers focussed on full-screen applications like ratpoison, for parallel interactive SSH sessions MultiSSH (package “mssh”) is probably be the better choice due to managing all SSH sessions in one application window.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pconsole

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

You can also use apt command to install pconsole.

sudo apt -y install pconsole

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

sudo aptitude install pconsole

Summary

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