qwdctl command not found

Introduction

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

qwdctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qwdctl: command not found

Solutions to qwdctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qwdctl is provided by qemu-web-desktop package.

qemu-web-desktop is:

A remote desktop service that launches virtual machines and displays them in your browser. Place virtual machine files (ISO, QCOW2, VDI, VMDK…) into /var/lib/qemu-web-desktop/machines, add their name in the /etc/qemu-web-desktop/machines.conf file, and run qwdctl refresh. You can tune the service settings in the /etc/qemu-web-desktop/config.pl

Once installed, connect to http://server/qemu-web-desktop

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

sudo apt-get -y install qemu-web-desktop

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

You can also use apt command to install qemu-web-desktop.

sudo apt -y install qemu-web-desktop

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

sudo aptitude install qemu-web-desktop

Summary

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