tigervncsession command not found

Introduction

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

tigervncsession: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tigervncsession: command not found

Solutions to tigervncsession: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tigervncsession is provided by tigervnc-standalone-server package.

tigervnc-standalone-server 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 a standalone VNC server to which clients can connect. The server generates a display that can be viewed with a vncviewer.

Note: This server does not need a display. You need a VNC viewer to see something. This viewer may also be on a computer running other operating systems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-standalone-server

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

You can also use apt command to install tigervnc-standalone-server.

sudo apt -y install tigervnc-standalone-server

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

sudo aptitude install tigervnc-standalone-server

Summary

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