sample_vpp command not found

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

Introduction

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

sample_vpp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sample_vpp: command not found

Solutions to sample_vpp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sample_vpp is provided by onevpl-tools package.

onevpl-tools is:

The oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) provides a single video processing API for encode, decode, and video processing that works across a wide range of accelerators.

This repository contains the following components of oneVPL:

  • Copies of the oneVPL Specification API header files
  • oneVPL dispatcher
  • Examples demonstrating API usage
  • oneVPL command line tools

This project is part of the larger oneAPI project.

This package includes the command line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install onevpl-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install onevpl-tools.

sudo apt -y install onevpl-tools

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

sudo aptitude install onevpl-tools

Summary

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