comskip command not found

Introduction

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

comskip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: comskip: command not found

Solutions to comskip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu comskip is provided by comskip package.

comskip is:

Comskip is a commercial detector. It is a console application that reads a mpeg or h.264 file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. A gui is also provided.

After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the video file.

The formats include input files for interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,Mpeg2Schnitt…) command line video cutters (mpgtx, cuttermaran, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer, …).

Comskip can read MPEG PS, TS, DVR-MS and WTV files up to UHD resolution (max 4000x2400) at various framerates (PAL and NTSC). Comskip can NOT read copy protected recordings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install comskip

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

You can also use apt command to install comskip.

sudo apt -y install comskip

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

sudo aptitude install comskip

Summary

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