gst123 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gst123 command not found error message

Introduction

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

gst123: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gst123: command not found

Solutions to gst123: command not found

How To Fix gst123: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gst123 is provided by gst123 package.

gst123 is:

The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on GStreamer. It plays all file formats supported by GStreamer, so if you have audio/video collections which contain different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your audio/video files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gst123

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

You can also use apt command to install gst123.

sudo apt -y install gst123

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

sudo aptitude install gst123

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix gst123 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.