paulstretch command not found

Introduction

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

paulstretch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: paulstretch: command not found

Solutions to paulstretch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu paulstretch is provided by paulstretch package.

paulstretch is:

This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by “spectral smoothing” the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture.

It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. While most sound stretching software sounds bad when trying to stretch the sounds a lot, this one is optimized for extreme sound stretching.

The stretch amount is unlimited. You can play the stretched sound in real-time (including the possibility to “freeze” the sound) or you can render the whole sound or a part of it to audio files.

It has many post-processing effects, like: filters, pitch/frequency shifters Support for WAV, OGG VORBIS files and MP3 files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install paulstretch

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

You can also use apt command to install paulstretch.

sudo apt -y install paulstretch

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

sudo aptitude install paulstretch

Summary

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