lcdvc command not found

Introduction

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

lcdvc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lcdvc: command not found

Solutions to lcdvc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lcdvc is provided by lcdproc package.

lcdproc is:

Lcdproc is a client/server suite including drivers for all kinds of nifty LCD displays. The server supports several serial devices: Matrix Orbital, Crystal Fontz, Bayrad, LB216, LCDM001 (kernelconcepts.de), Wirz-SLI and PIC-an-LCD; and some devices connected to the LPT port: HD44780, STV5730, T6963, SED1520 and SED1330.

Various clients are available that display things like CPU load, system load, memory usage, uptime, and a lot more. Custom clients can be written using the simple client-server protocol and provided example code.

This package contains the LCD drivers which need no extra libraries to run. In the lcdproc-extra-drivers package some USB and VGA on-screen displays are also supported.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lcdproc

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

You can also use apt command to install lcdproc.

sudo apt -y install lcdproc

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

sudo aptitude install lcdproc

Summary

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