zvbid command not found

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

Introduction

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

zvbid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zvbid: command not found

Solutions to zvbid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zvbid is provided by zvbi package.

zvbi is:

Television broadcasts use the VBI to transmit text such as closed captioning (NTSC), Teletext (PAL/SECAM), and now Intercast and the ATVEC Internet television encodings. The zvbi library is used to capture and decode raw VBI data.

This package contains the following utilities:

  • zvbid, a proxy for VBI devices. It forwards VBI data streams to one or more connected clients and manages channel change requests.
  • zvbi-atsc-cc, a command-line utility that captures ATSC TV transmissions using a Linux DVB device and decodes the enclosed Closed Caption data. It can record both NTSC caption (EIA 608-B) and DTVCC caption (CEA 708-C).
  • zvbi-chains, a wrapper which executes the VBI application given on the command line while overloading several C library calls so that the application can be forced to access VBI devices via the VBI proxy instead of device files directly.
  • zvbi-ntsc-cc, a command-line utility for decoding and capturing closed captioning (CC) for NTSC and webtv.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zvbi

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

You can also use apt command to install zvbi.

sudo apt -y install zvbi

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

sudo aptitude install zvbi

Summary

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