ffmpeg2theora command not found

Introduction

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

ffmpeg2theora: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffmpeg2theora: command not found

Solutions to ffmpeg2theora: command not found

How To Fix ffmpeg2theora: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ffmpeg2theora is provided by ffmpeg2theora package.

ffmpeg2theora is:

This package provides a command-line tool to encode/recode various video formats (basically everything that ffmpeg can read) into Theora, the free video codec.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffmpeg2theora

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

You can also use apt command to install ffmpeg2theora.

sudo apt -y install ffmpeg2theora

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

sudo aptitude install ffmpeg2theora

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ffmpeg2theora command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.