csound command not found

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

Introduction

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

csound: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: csound: command not found

Solutions to csound: command not found

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

In Ubuntu csound is provided by csound package.

csound is:

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system. Drawing from over 450 signal processing modules, it can be used to model virtually any synthesizer or multi-effect processor. It can work either in real-time or as a compiler.

Csound is to sound synthesis as C is to programming.

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

sudo apt-get -y install csound

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

You can also use apt command to install csound.

sudo apt -y install csound

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

sudo aptitude install csound

Summary

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