looking-glass-client command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix looking-glass-client command not found error message

Introduction

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

looking-glass-client: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: looking-glass-client: command not found

Solutions to looking-glass-client: command not found

How To Fix looking-glass-client: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu looking-glass-client is provided by looking-glass-client package.

looking-glass-client is:

LookingGlass enables you to use shared memory to pass rendered frames from a virtual machine back to the host system.

A LookingGlass Host implementation is required to run on the guest virtual machine. It is recommended that the client and host versions match. See the README.Debian for more information.

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

sudo apt-get -y install looking-glass-client

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

You can also use apt command to install looking-glass-client.

sudo apt -y install looking-glass-client

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

sudo aptitude install looking-glass-client

Summary

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