jtightvncviewer command not found

Introduction

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

jtightvncviewer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jtightvncviewer: command not found

Solutions to jtightvncviewer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jtightvncviewer is provided by tightvnc-java package.

tightvnc-java is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which 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.

This is the vnc java applet files that the tightvncserver can distribute to the client.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tightvnc-java

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

You can also use apt command to install tightvnc-java.

sudo apt -y install tightvnc-java

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

sudo aptitude install tightvnc-java

Summary

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