vdpauinfo command not found

Introduction

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

vdpauinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vdpauinfo: command not found

Solutions to vdpauinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vdpauinfo is provided by vdpauinfo package.

vdpauinfo is:

VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) is an open source library (libvdpau) and API designed by NVIDIA originally for its GeForce 8 series and later GPU hardware, targeted at the X Window System on Unix operating-systems (including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris). This VDPAU API allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video-hardware.

This package contains the vdpauinfo utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vdpauinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install vdpauinfo.

sudo apt -y install vdpauinfo

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

sudo aptitude install vdpauinfo

Summary

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