ecaplay command not found

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

Introduction

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

ecaplay: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecaplay: command not found

Solutions to ecaplay: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecaplay is provided by ecatools package.

ecatools is:

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs.

This package provides the following tools:

  • ecaconvert: tool for converting a set of files to a common target format
  • ecafixdc: command-line tool for fixing DC-offset
  • ecalength: tool for printing audio file length and other information
  • ecamonitor: tool for monitoring an active ecasound session
  • ecanormalize: command-line tool for normalizing audio files
  • ecaplay: command-line tool for playing audio files

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

sudo apt-get -y install ecatools

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

You can also use apt command to install ecatools.

sudo apt -y install ecatools

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

sudo aptitude install ecatools

Summary

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