ripit command not found

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

Introduction

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

ripit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ripit: command not found

In Ubuntu ripit is provided by ripit package.

ripit is:

ripit runs in text mode (no fancy GUI here) and does everything required to produce a set of mp3, ogg, flac, m4a files without any user-intervention.

ripit does the following with an Audio CD:

Get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB
Get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from Musicbrainz
Rip the audio CD Tracks (using cdparanoia or other cdrippers)
Encode the files (using lame, oggvorbis flac and/or faac)
ID3 tag them (v1 & v2)
Optional: creates a playlist (M3U) file (lists MP3s created, used by various MP3 players)
Optional: Prepares and sends a CDDB submission.
Optional: Saves the CDDB file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ripit

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

You can also use apt command to install ripit.

sudo apt -y install ripit

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

sudo aptitude install ripit

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