mute command not found

Introduction

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

mute: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mute: command not found

Solutions to mute: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mute is provided by aumix-common package.

aumix-common is:

aumix is a small, easy-to-use program to control the mixer of your sound card. It runs in text mode using the ncurses library, or from the command line (non-interactively). It can read default settings from a file, and it can also automatically save and restore the mixer settings at shutdown and boot.

This package provides files common to aumix and aumix-gtk.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aumix-common

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

You can also use apt command to install aumix-common.

sudo apt -y install aumix-common

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

sudo aptitude install aumix-common

Summary

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