ffmpegfs command not found

Introduction

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

ffmpegfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffmpegfs: command not found

Solutions to ffmpegfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ffmpegfs is provided by ffmpegfs package.

ffmpegfs is:

A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes various audio and video formats to MP4, WebM and many more on the fly when opened and read using the FFmpeg library, this way supporting a multitude of input formats and a variety of common output formats.

This allows access to a multi media file collection with software and/or hardware which only understands one of the supported output formats, or transcode files through simple drag-and-drop in a file browser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffmpegfs

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

You can also use apt command to install ffmpegfs.

sudo apt -y install ffmpegfs

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

sudo aptitude install ffmpegfs

Summary

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