knpplayer command not found

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

Introduction

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

knpplayer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: knpplayer: command not found

Solutions to knpplayer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu knpplayer is provided by kmplayer package.

kmplayer is:

KMPlayer is a simple frontend for MPlayer/FFMpeg/Phonon.

Some features:

  • play DVD/VCD movies (from file or url and from a video device)
  • embed inside konqueror (movie is played inside konqueror)
  • embed inside khtml (movie playback inside a html page)
  • Movie recording using mencoder (part of the mplayer package)
  • No video during recording, but you can always open a new window and play it
  • Broadcasting, http streaming, using ffserver/ffmpeg
  • For TV sources, you need v4lctl (part of the xawtv package)

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

sudo apt-get -y install kmplayer

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

You can also use apt command to install kmplayer.

sudo apt -y install kmplayer

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

sudo aptitude install kmplayer

Summary

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