vmware-rpctool command not found

Introduction

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

vmware-rpctool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vmware-rpctool: command not found

Solutions to vmware-rpctool: command not found

How To Fix vmware-rpctool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vmware-rpctool is provided by open-vm-tools package.

open-vm-tools is:

The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines.

This package contains only the core user-space programs and libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install open-vm-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install open-vm-tools.

sudo apt -y install open-vm-tools

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

sudo aptitude install open-vm-tools

Summary

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