qgis_mapserver command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qgis_mapserver command not found error message

Introduction

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

qgis_mapserver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qgis_mapserver: command not found

In Ubuntu qgis_mapserver is provided by qgis-server-bin package.

qgis-server-bin is:

QGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) which manages, analyzes and display databases of geographic information.

This package contains the QGIS server executables.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qgis-server-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install qgis-server-bin.

sudo apt -y install qgis-server-bin

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

sudo aptitude install qgis-server-bin

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