ssvnc command not found

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

Introduction

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

ssvnc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssvnc: command not found

Solutions to ssvnc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ssvnc is provided by ssvnc package.

ssvnc is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

SSVNC is two things:

  • An enhanced version of the TightVNC client with support for more encodings and color modes, support for x11vnc and UltraVNC extensions, dynamic screen resizing, an improved popup menu, etc.

  • A GUI that helps set up an SSL (using stunnel) or SSH tunnel to connect to the VNC server through, as well as forwarding of ports for audio (esound/aRts), SMB, CUPS etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ssvnc

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

You can also use apt command to install ssvnc.

sudo apt -y install ssvnc

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

sudo aptitude install ssvnc

Summary

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