vmwarectrl command not found

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

Introduction

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

vmwarectrl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vmwarectrl: command not found

In Ubuntu vmwarectrl is provided by xserver-xorg-video-vmware package.

xserver-xorg-video-vmware is:

This package provides the driver for VMware client sessions, i.e. if Linux is running inside a VMware session.

More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:http://www.X.org

This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-vmware driver module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-vmware

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

You can also use apt command to install xserver-xorg-video-vmware.

sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-video-vmware

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

sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vmware

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