vipagekite command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix vipagekite command not found error message

Introduction

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

vipagekite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vipagekite: command not found

Solutions to vipagekite: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vipagekite is provided by pagekite package.

pagekite is:

PageKite is a system for running publicly visible servers (generally web servers) on machines without a direct connection to the Internet, such as mobile devices or computers behind restrictive firewalls. PageKite works around NAT, firewalls and IP-address limitations by using a combination of tunnels and reverse proxies.

Natively supported protocols: HTTP, HTTPS Partially supported protocols: IRC, Finger

Any other TCP-based service, including SSH and VNC, may be exposed as well to clients supporting HTTP Proxies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pagekite

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

You can also use apt command to install pagekite.

sudo apt -y install pagekite

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

sudo aptitude install pagekite

Summary

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