rtmpdump command not found

Introduction

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

rtmpdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rtmpdump: command not found

Solutions to rtmpdump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rtmpdump is provided by rtmpdump package.

rtmpdump is:

A small dumper for media content streamed over the RTMP protocol (like BBC’s iPlayer high quality streams). Supplying an RTMP URL will result in a dumped flv file, which can be played/transcoded with standard tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rtmpdump

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

You can also use apt command to install rtmpdump.

sudo apt -y install rtmpdump

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

sudo aptitude install rtmpdump

Summary

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