rdesktop command not found

Introduction

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

rdesktop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdesktop: command not found

Solutions to rdesktop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rdesktop is provided by rdesktop package.

rdesktop is:

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server and Windows Server 2003/2008. Capable of natively speaking its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdesktop

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

You can also use apt command to install rdesktop.

sudo apt -y install rdesktop

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

sudo aptitude install rdesktop

Summary

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