rss-glx_install command not found

Introduction

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

rss-glx_install: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rss-glx_install: command not found

Solutions to rss-glx_install: command not found

How To Fix rss-glx_install: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rss-glx_install is provided by rss-glx package.

rss-glx is:

rss-glx is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh (http://www.reallyslick.com/). Also included are several other OpenGL screensavers ported from other platforms.

The screensavers can either be run as stand-alone applications or get integrated into XScreenSaver’s list of active screensavers. More information about using these with xscreensaver can be found in /usr/share/doc/rss-glx.

Screensavers included in this package are: Biof, Busy Spheres, Colorfire, Cyclone, Drempels, Euphoria, Feedback, Fieldlines, Flocks, Flux, Helios, Hufo’s Smoke, Hufo’s Tunnel, Hyperspace, Lattice, Lorenz Attractor, MatrixView, Plasma, Pixel City, Skyrocket, Solarwinds, SpirographX, and Sundancer2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rss-glx

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

You can also use apt command to install rss-glx.

sudo apt -y install rss-glx

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

sudo aptitude install rss-glx

Summary

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