aomenc command not found

Introduction

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

aomenc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aomenc: command not found

Solutions to aomenc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu aomenc is provided by aom-tools package.

aom-tools is:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open and royalty free video encoding format optimized for the Internet and the successor of VP9. aom is the reference encoder and decoder implementation published by the Alliance for Open Media.

This package contains the command line encoding and decoding tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aom-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install aom-tools.

sudo apt -y install aom-tools

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

sudo aptitude install aom-tools

Summary

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