cmus-remote command not found

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

Introduction

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

cmus-remote: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cmus-remote: command not found

Solutions to cmus-remote: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cmus-remote 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-remote command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.