aac-enc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix aac-enc command not found error message

Introduction

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

aac-enc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aac-enc: command not found

In Ubuntu aac-enc is provided by aac-enc package.

aac-enc is:

The FDK AAC Codec Library For Android contains an encoder implementation of the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio codec.

This package contains a frontend binary capable of encoding WAVE files using the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aac-enc

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

You can also use apt command to install aac-enc.

sudo apt -y install aac-enc

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

sudo aptitude install aac-enc

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