gvncviewer command not found

Introduction

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

gvncviewer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gvncviewer: command not found

Solutions to gvncviewer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gvncviewer is provided by gvncviewer package.

gvncviewer is:

It is built using coroutines, allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded. It supports RFB protocols 3.3 through 3.8 and the VeNCrypt authentication extension providing SSL/TLS encryption with x509 certificate authentication.

The core library is written in C and a bindings for other languages are available via GObject introspection. The networking layer supports connections over both IPv4 and IPv6.

This package contains the VNC viewer and VNC capture utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gvncviewer

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

You can also use apt command to install gvncviewer.

sudo apt -y install gvncviewer

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

sudo aptitude install gvncviewer

Summary

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