cdda2wav command not found

Introduction

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

cdda2wav: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cdda2wav: command not found

Solutions to cdda2wav: command not found

How To Fix cdda2wav: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cdda2wav is provided by icedax package.

icedax is:

icedax lets you digitally copy (“rip”) audio tracks from a CD, avoiding the distortion that is introduced when recording via a sound card. Data can be dumped into raw (cdr), wav or sun format sound files. Options control the recording format (stereo/mono; 8/16 bits; sampling rate, etc).

Please install cdrkit-doc if you want most of the documentation and README files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install icedax

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

You can also use apt command to install icedax.

sudo apt -y install icedax

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

sudo aptitude install icedax

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cdda2wav command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.