showriff command not found

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

Introduction

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

showriff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: showriff: command not found

In Ubuntu showriff is provided by xawtv-tools package.

xawtv-tools is:

XawTV is a set of software for watching and recording television channels and webcams.

This package provides some tools that may be useful with xawtv:

propwatch: monitors properties of X11 windows. Helps to keep track of xawtv’s _XAWTV_STATION property;
dump-mixers: dumps mixer settings to stdout;
record: console sound recorder. It has a simple input level meter which might be useful for troubleshooting sound problems;
showriff: display the structure of RIFF files (avi, wav).

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

sudo apt-get -y install xawtv-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install xawtv-tools

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

sudo aptitude install xawtv-tools

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