xtigervncviewer command not found

Introduction

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

xtigervncviewer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xtigervncviewer: command not found

Solutions to xtigervncviewer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xtigervncviewer is provided by tigervnc-viewer package.

tigervnc-viewer is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system that allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. For this purpose, it implements a client/server model.

This package provides a VNC client for X. With this you can connect to a VNC server and display its content. There are VNC servers available for other operating systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-viewer

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

You can also use apt command to install tigervnc-viewer.

sudo apt -y install tigervnc-viewer

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

sudo aptitude install tigervnc-viewer

Summary

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