sidplay command not found

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

Introduction

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

sidplay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sidplay: command not found

In Ubuntu sidplay is provided by sidplay-base package.

sidplay-base is:

This is a simple music player for C64 and C128 tunes, also known as SID tunes. The package includes a program (sid2wav) for creating .wav files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sidplay-base

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

You can also use apt command to install sidplay-base.

sudo apt -y install sidplay-base

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

sudo aptitude install sidplay-base

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