dssi_list_plugins command not found

Introduction

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

dssi_list_plugins: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dssi_list_plugins: command not found

Solutions to dssi_list_plugins: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dssi_list_plugins is provided by dssi-utils package.

dssi-utils is:

DSSI is an API for audio plugins, with particular application for software synthesis plugins with native user interfaces.

DSSI is an open specification developed for use in Linux audio applications, although it is portable to other platforms. It may be thought of as LADSPA-for-instruments, or something comparable to VSTi.

This package contains the dssi_osc_send and dssi_osc_update utilities which can, for instance, be used to send commands to the DSSI trivial synth plugin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dssi-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install dssi-utils.

sudo apt -y install dssi-utils

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

sudo aptitude install dssi-utils

Summary

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