dvd+rw-mediainfo command not found

Introduction

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

dvd+rw-mediainfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dvd+rw-mediainfo: command not found

Solutions to dvd+rw-mediainfo: command not found

How To Fix dvd+rw-mediainfo: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dvd+rw-mediainfo is provided by dvd+rw-tools package.

dvd+rw-tools is:

The dvd+rw-tools suite makes it possible to burn DVD images created by dvdauthor or genisoimage to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW disks, replacing cdrecord-proDVD in many cases.

This package contains dvd+rw-mediainfo (to give details about DVD disks), and some programs to control the write speed and obtain information from DVD-RAM.

Additionally, it depends on the growisofs package to provide the main front-end for burning DVD-like media.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dvd+rw-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install dvd+rw-tools.

sudo apt -y install dvd+rw-tools

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

sudo aptitude install dvd+rw-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dvd+rw-mediainfo command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.