surf-display command not found

Introduction

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

surf-display: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: surf-display: command not found

Solutions to surf-display: command not found

How To Fix surf-display: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu surf-display is provided by surf-display package.

surf-display is:

Provide an X11 session manager script that launches a minimal window manager and then opens an entry web page via the surf web browser in kiosk mode. The web page can be consumed “read-only” or in interactive mode.

In combination with the nodm display manager you can provide an easy-to-setup html’ish display screen or a web terminal.

If URL/domain filtering is needed, combine surf-display with a local instance of tinyproxy.

After a configurable idle time, the browser session is fully reset and started anew.

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

sudo apt-get -y install surf-display

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

You can also use apt command to install surf-display.

sudo apt -y install surf-display

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

sudo aptitude install surf-display

Summary

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