cmus command not found

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

Introduction

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

cmus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cmus: command not found

Solutions to cmus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cmus is provided by cmus package.

cmus is:

C* Music Player is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. It has some interesting features like configurable colorscheme, mp3 and ogg streaming, it can be controlled with an UNIX socket, filters, album/artists sorting and a vi-like configuration interface.

It currently supports different input formats:

  • Ogg Vorbis
  • MP3 (with libmad)
  • FLAC
  • Wav
  • Modules (with libmodplug)
  • Musepack
  • AAC
  • Windows Media Audio

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

sudo apt-get -y install cmus

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

You can also use apt command to install cmus.

sudo apt -y install cmus

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

sudo aptitude install cmus

Summary

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