YUView command not found

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

Introduction

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

YUView: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: YUView: command not found

Solutions to YUView: command not found

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

In Ubuntu YUView is provided by yuview package.

yuview is:

YUView is a YUV image player and analysis tool. However, it can do so much more:

  • simple navigation/zooming in the video
  • support for a wide variety of YUV formats using various subsamplings and bit depts
  • support for raw RGB files, image files and image sequences
  • direct decoding of raw h.265/HEVC bitstreams with visualization of internals like prediction modes and motion vectors and many more
  • interface with visualization for the reference software decoders HM and JEM
  • support for opening almost any file using FFmpeg
  • image comparison using side-by-side and comparison view
  • calculation and display of differences (in YUV or RGB colorspace)
  • save and load playlists
  • overlay the video with statistics data

Note: YUV is kind of RAW image format stored by color spaces. Y stands for luminance component, so it’s in black-and-white, while UV are chromatic parts of the image.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yuview

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

You can also use apt command to install yuview.

sudo apt -y install yuview

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

sudo aptitude install yuview

Summary

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