fbtv command not found

Introduction

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

fbtv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fbtv: command not found

Solutions to fbtv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fbtv is provided by fbtv package.

fbtv is:

XawTV is a set of software for watching and recording television channels and webcams.

FbTV is a Linux framebuffer application which displays television channels. It supports video4linux devices and requires a framebuffer device (vesafb, matroxfb, atyfb, etc.).

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbtv

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

You can also use apt command to install fbtv.

sudo apt -y install fbtv

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

sudo aptitude install fbtv

Summary

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