divxenc command not found

Introduction

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

divxenc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: divxenc: command not found

Solutions to divxenc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu divxenc is provided by divxenc package.

divxenc is:

A shell script which makes it easy to encode DVDs, (S)VCDs or video files to the FMP4/DivX video format using MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Here you can find more information about divxenc and the features it supports as well as a FAQ on various issues.

divxenc has a total of 8 video quality presets ranging from Normal Quality to Insane High Quality. It further has the ability to auto-detect a lot of stuff, like DVD titles, chapters, subtitles, audio streams, and it supports frequently used video filters like scale, crop, dering, deblock, noise, denoise, (un)sharp mask/gaussian blur, deinterlace, interlace, inverse telecine/pullup and hard telecine/3:2 pulldown.

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

sudo apt-get -y install divxenc

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

You can also use apt command to install divxenc.

sudo apt -y install divxenc

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

sudo aptitude install divxenc

Summary

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