extract_dts command not found

Introduction

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

extract_dts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: extract_dts: command not found

Solutions to extract_dts: command not found

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

In Ubuntu extract_dts is provided by libdca-utils package.

libdca-utils is:

libdca provides a low-level interface to decode audio frames encoded using DTS Coherent Acoustics. DTS Coherent Acoustics streams are commonly found on DVDs, DTS audio CDs and some radio broadcastings. libdca also provides downmixing and dynamic range compression for various output configurations.

This package contains additional utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdca-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libdca-utils.

sudo apt -y install libdca-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libdca-utils

Summary

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