oscsendfile command not found

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

Introduction

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

oscsendfile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: oscsendfile: command not found

Solutions to oscsendfile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu oscsendfile is provided by liblo-tools package.

liblo-tools is:

LibLO is a lightweight, easy to use implementation of the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol (see https://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/ for details).

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. OSC features:

Open-ended, dynamic, URL-style symbolic naming scheme
Symbolic and high-resolution numeric argument data
Pattern matching language to specify multiple recipients of a single message
High resolution time tags
“Bundles” of messages whose effects must occur simultaneously
Query system to dynamically find out the capabilities of an OSC server and get documentation

This package contains the tools included with the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblo-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install liblo-tools.

sudo apt -y install liblo-tools

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

sudo aptitude install liblo-tools

Summary

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