apulse command not found

Introduction

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

apulse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apulse: command not found

Solutions to apulse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu apulse is provided by apulse package.

apulse is:

The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the PulseAudio API. It consists of a loader script and a number of shared libraries with the same names as from original PulseAudio, so applications could dynamically load them and think they are talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound mixing daemon is used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA’s dmix, dsnoop, and plug plugins to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the same time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin allow multiple applications to capture from a single microphone; and plug plugin transparently converts audio between various sample formats, sample rates and channel numbers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apulse

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

You can also use apt command to install apulse.

sudo apt -y install apulse

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

sudo aptitude install apulse

Summary

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