directvnc-xmapconv command not found

Introduction

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

directvnc-xmapconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: directvnc-xmapconv: command not found

Solutions to directvnc-xmapconv: command not found

How To Fix directvnc-xmapconv: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu directvnc-xmapconv is provided by directvnc package.

directvnc is:

DirectVNC is a client implementing the remote framebuffer protocol (rfb) which is used by VNC servers. If a VNC server is running on a machine you can connect to it using this client and have the contents of its display shown on your screen. Keyboard and mouse events are sent to the server, so you can basically control a VNC server remotely.

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

sudo apt-get -y install directvnc

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

You can also use apt command to install directvnc.

sudo apt -y install directvnc

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

sudo aptitude install directvnc

Summary

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