ecasound command not found

Introduction

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

ecasound: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecasound: command not found

Solutions to ecasound: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecasound is provided by ecasound package.

ecasound 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 ecasound executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ecasound

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

You can also use apt command to install ecasound.

sudo apt -y install ecasound

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

sudo aptitude install ecasound

Summary

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