vwm command not found

Introduction

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

vwm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vwm: command not found

Solutions to vwm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vwm is provided by vmware-manager package.

vmware-manager is:

This package provides vwm, a command-line tool for managing VMware virtual machines. This is primarily useful for larger installations where virtuals need to be migrated, cloned or otherwise modified from the command line.

vwm requires the non-free VMware Vsphere Perl SDK to be installed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vmware-manager

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

You can also use apt command to install vmware-manager.

sudo apt -y install vmware-manager

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

sudo aptitude install vmware-manager

Summary

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