ambix-info command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ambix-info command not found error message

Introduction

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

ambix-info: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ambix-info: command not found

Solutions to ambix-info: command not found

How To Fix ambix-info: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ambix-info is provided by libambix-utils package.

libambix-utils is:

libambix is a library of C routines for reading and writing files following the “ambix” (AMBIsonics eXchange) conventions.

Ambisonics is a periphonic (3D) surround sound technique, with a scalable spatial resolution (put simply: “the more audio channels you use, the better”). The ambix convention defines an extensible format for exchanging soundfiles containing Higher Order Ambisonics data.

This package contains additional commandline utilities to work with ambix-files:

  • ambix-info: Print information on ambix files
  • ambix-interleave: Merges several audio files into an ambix file
  • ambix-deinterleave: Split an ambix file into several mono files
  • ambix-jplay: Play back an ambix file via JACK
  • ambix-jrecord: Record an ambix file via JACK

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

sudo apt-get -y install libambix-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libambix-utils.

sudo apt -y install libambix-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libambix-utils

Summary

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