plugctl command not found

Introduction

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

plugctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plugctl: command not found

Solutions to plugctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plugctl is provided by libiec61883-dev package.

libiec61883-dev is:

Implementation of IEC 61883, part 1 (CIP, plug registers, and CMP), part 2 (DV-SD), part 4 (MPEG2-TS), and part 6 (AMDTP). Outside of IIDC, nearly all FireWire multimedia devices use IEC 61883 protocols.

The libiec61883 library provides a higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2 and audio over Linux IEEE 1394. This includes both reception and transmission. It uses the new “rawiso” API of libraw1394, which transparently provides mmap-ed DMA for efficient data transfer. It also represents the third generation of I/O technology for Linux 1394 for these media types thereby removing the complexities of additional kernel modules, /dev nodes, and procfs. It also consolidates features for plug control registers and connection management that previously existed in experimental form in an unreleased version of libavc1394.

These are development files for libiec61883 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libiec61883-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libiec61883-dev.

sudo apt -y install libiec61883-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libiec61883-dev

Summary

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