mzclient command not found

Introduction

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

mzclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mzclient: command not found

Solutions to mzclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mzclient is provided by mzclient package.

mzclient is:

Mono.Zeroconf is a cross platform Zero Configuration Networking library for Mono and .NET. It provides a unified API for performing the most common zeroconf operations on a variety of platforms and subsystems: all the operating systems supported by Mono and both the Avahi and Bonjour/mDNSResponder transports.

By using Mono.ZeroConf applications can use a single API that will work regardless of the underlying implementation that a particular operating system uses.

Applications can publish services that will be exposed to other computers on the network and also query the local machines on the network for services that could have been exposed.

This package contains the mzclient tool, that can be used for resolving or publishing services from the commandline.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mzclient

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

You can also use apt command to install mzclient.

sudo apt -y install mzclient

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

sudo aptitude install mzclient

Summary

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