sndiod command not found

Introduction

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

sndiod: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sndiod: command not found

Solutions to sndiod: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sndiod is provided by sndiod package.

sndiod is:

Sndio is a small, simple audio and MIDI framework, developed by the OpenBSD project. It provides a lightweight audio and MIDI server and a well-documented userspace API to access the server or audio hardware in a uniform way. Sndio is designed to work well for both desktop and professional music applications, and supports features found in more complex sound systems such as per-application volume control, software mixing, and network transparency.

This package contains the sndiod sound server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sndiod

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

You can also use apt command to install sndiod.

sudo apt -y install sndiod

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

sudo aptitude install sndiod

Summary

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