tigervncconfig command not found

Introduction

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

tigervncconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tigervncconfig: command not found

Solutions to tigervncconfig: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tigervncconfig is provided by tigervnc-common package.

tigervnc-common is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system that 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. For this purpose, it implements a client/server model.

This package provides the common infrastructure for the tigervnc-scraping-server and the tigervnc-standalone-server packages and the vncconfig tool, which should run in the `desktop’ environment served by the VNC server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-common

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

You can also use apt command to install tigervnc-common.

sudo apt -y install tigervnc-common

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

sudo aptitude install tigervnc-common

Summary

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