emms-print-metadata command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix emms-print-metadata command not found error message

Introduction

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

emms-print-metadata: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emms-print-metadata: command not found

In Ubuntu emms-print-metadata is provided by emms package.

emms is:

EMMS is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emms

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

You can also use apt command to install emms.

sudo apt -y install emms

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

sudo aptitude install emms

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