checkflac command not found

Introduction

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

checkflac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: checkflac: command not found

Solutions to checkflac: command not found

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

In Ubuntu checkflac is provided by flactag package.

flactag is:

Tagger for whole-album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. Data for the tags is retrieved from the MusicBrainz service. Tags are written as VORBIS comments or standalone CUESHEET files, and the application has the ability to rename a file based on the tags using a user-specified template.

flactag can be run either interactively (to allow the user to select which of the results to tag the file with), or in batch mode (allowing files to be checked regularly for changes, and optionally to apply these changes automatically).

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

sudo apt-get -y install flactag

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

You can also use apt command to install flactag.

sudo apt -y install flactag

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

sudo aptitude install flactag

Summary

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