nvdump command not found

Introduction

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

nvdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nvdump: command not found

Solutions to nvdump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nvdump is provided by nvtv package.

nvtv is:

This is a program to control the TV encoder chips on NVidia cards under Linux, in order to get tv-out with a wide range of resolutions and sizes, including “overscan” modes. It does even work with the free nv drivers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nvtv

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

You can also use apt command to install nvtv.

sudo apt -y install nvtv

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

sudo aptitude install nvtv

Summary

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