VBoxClient command not found

Introduction

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

VBoxClient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: VBoxClient: command not found

Solutions to VBoxClient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu VBoxClient is provided by virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe package.

virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe is:

VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.

This package provides the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox. These utilities are meant to be run inside the virtual machine. They provide closer integration and improve the interactive performance.

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

sudo apt-get -y install virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe

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

You can also use apt command to install virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe.

sudo apt -y install virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe

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

sudo aptitude install virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe

Summary

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