qasconfig command not found

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

Introduction

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

qasconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qasconfig: command not found

Solutions to qasconfig: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qasconfig is provided by qasconfig package.

qasconfig is:

QasTools is a collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA.

The applications included are:

  • QasConfig - browser for the ALSA configuration tree
  • QasHctl - mixer for ALSA’s High level Control Interface
  • QasMixer - desktop mixer with features similar to alsamixer

ALSA’s configuration resides in a tree structure which gets built from the contents of the files /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc. QasConfig is a simple browser for this configuration tree and can help to analyze and debug an ALSA setup.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qasconfig

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

You can also use apt command to install qasconfig.

sudo apt -y install qasconfig

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

sudo aptitude install qasconfig

Summary

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