start-nas command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix start-nas command not found error message

Introduction

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

start-nas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: start-nas: command not found

Solutions to start-nas: command not found

How To Fix start-nas: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu start-nas is provided by nas package.

nas is:

The Network Audio System (NAS) was developed by NCD for playing, recording, and manipulating audio data over a network. Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices.

This package contains the NAS daemon (nasd), needed for local output from NAS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nas

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

You can also use apt command to install nas.

sudo apt -y install nas

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

sudo aptitude install nas

Summary

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