dvgrab command not found

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

Introduction

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

dvgrab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dvgrab: command not found

Solutions to dvgrab: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dvgrab is provided by dvgrab package.

dvgrab is:

dvgrab receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an IEEE1394 (widely known as FireWire) or USB link and stores them into one of several file formats. It features autosplit of long video sequences, and supports saving the data as raw frames, AVI type 1, AVI type 2, Quicktime DV, a series of JPEG stills or MPEG2-TS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dvgrab

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

You can also use apt command to install dvgrab.

sudo apt -y install dvgrab

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

sudo aptitude install dvgrab

Summary

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