cdrskin command not found

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

Introduction

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

cdrskin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cdrskin: command not found

Solutions to cdrskin: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cdrskin is provided by cdrskin package.

cdrskin is:

cdrskin strives to be a second source for the services traditionally provided by cdrecord. It writes data sessions to CD, DVD, or BD media. To CD media it may also write audio sessions. Multi-session is possible on all media types except DVD-R DL and fastly blanked DVD-RW.

This is a burner-only application. If you want a burner and ISO 9660 image manipulation application, please install the xorriso package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cdrskin

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

You can also use apt command to install cdrskin.

sudo apt -y install cdrskin

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

sudo aptitude install cdrskin

Summary

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