fdkaac command not found

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

Introduction

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

fdkaac: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fdkaac: command not found

In Ubuntu fdkaac is provided by fdkaac package.

fdkaac is:

fdkaac is a command-line AAC encoder based on libfdk-aac.

It reads linear PCM audio in either WAV, raw PCM, or CAF format and encodes it into M4A / AAC files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdkaac

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

You can also use apt command to install fdkaac.

sudo apt -y install fdkaac

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

sudo aptitude install fdkaac

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