paprefs command not found

Introduction

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

paprefs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: paprefs: command not found

Solutions to paprefs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu paprefs is provided by paprefs package.

paprefs is:

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.

PulseAudio Preferences (paprefs) is a simple GTK+ based configuration dialog for the PulseAudio sound server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install paprefs

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

You can also use apt command to install paprefs.

sudo apt -y install paprefs

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

sudo aptitude install paprefs

Summary

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