tmate-ssh-server command not found

Introduction

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

tmate-ssh-server: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tmate-ssh-server: command not found

Solutions to tmate-ssh-server: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tmate-ssh-server is provided by tmate-ssh-server package.

tmate-ssh-server is:

tmate provides an instant pairing solution, allowing you to share a terminal with one or several teammates. Together with a voice call, it’s almost like pairing in person. The terminal sharing works by using SSH connections to backend servers running tmate-ssh-server; teammates need to be given a randomly-generated token to be able to join a session.

tmate is a modified version of tmux, and uses the same configurations such as keybindings, color schemes etc.

This package contains the tmate-ssh-server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tmate-ssh-server

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

You can also use apt command to install tmate-ssh-server.

sudo apt -y install tmate-ssh-server

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

sudo aptitude install tmate-ssh-server

Summary

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