vokoscreenNG command not found

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

Introduction

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

vokoscreenNG: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vokoscreenNG: command not found

Solutions to vokoscreenNG: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vokoscreenNG is provided by vokoscreen-ng package.

vokoscreen-ng is:

vokoscreenNG can be used to record videos from computers screen, webcams, external cameras, etc. This graphical tool can produce educational videos, live recordings of browser navigation, tutorials of installations, record videoconferences, etc. You can capture an alone video or video and sound.

This program can save files in some formats and use some codecs for video and audio:

  • Video: x264, openh264, H.264 (Intel GPU), MPEG-2 (Intel GPU) and VP8.
  • Audio: vorbis, flac, opus, mp3 and aac.
  • File : mkv, webm, avi, mp4 and mov.

NOTE: for now openh264 and acc are not available in Debian.

vokoscreenNG is a modern full replacement for vokoscreen, both written by Volker Kohaupt. The main difference is that vokoscreen uses ffmpeg as base, while vokoscreenNG has been rewritten from scratch and is based in GStreamer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vokoscreen-ng

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

You can also use apt command to install vokoscreen-ng.

sudo apt -y install vokoscreen-ng

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

sudo aptitude install vokoscreen-ng

Summary

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