abcde command not found

Introduction

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

abcde: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: abcde: command not found

Solutions to abcde: command not found

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

In Ubuntu abcde is provided by abcde package.

abcde is:

frontend program to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Ogg/Speex, M4A, Opus, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (ape), MPP/MP+(Musepack) and/or AIFF format encoder (defaults to oggenc). Grabs an entire CD and converts each track to the specified formats and then comments or tags each file, with one command.

With abcde you can encode several formats with one single command, using a single CD read operation. It also allows you to read and encode while not on the internet, and later query a CDDB or Musicbrainz server to lookup metadata and tag your files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abcde

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

You can also use apt command to install abcde.

sudo apt -y install abcde

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

sudo aptitude install abcde

Summary

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