cvlc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cvlc command not found error message

Introduction

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

cvlc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cvlc: command not found

Solutions to cvlc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cvlc is provided by vlc-bin package.

vlc-bin is:

VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

This package contains the VLC’s binaries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vlc-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install vlc-bin.

sudo apt -y install vlc-bin

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

sudo aptitude install vlc-bin

Summary

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