faac command not found

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

Introduction

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

faac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: faac: command not found

Solutions to faac: command not found

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

In Ubuntu faac is provided by faac package.

faac is:

The FAAC project includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports several MPEG-4 object types (LC, Main, LTP, HE AAC, PS) and file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless en/decoding as well as MP4 metadata tags. The codecs are compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these profiles.

This package contains the frontend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install faac

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

You can also use apt command to install faac.

sudo apt -y install faac

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

sudo aptitude install faac

Summary

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