ffmsindex command not found

Introduction

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

ffmsindex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffmsindex: command not found

Solutions to ffmsindex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ffmsindex is provided by ffmsindex package.

ffmsindex is:

A cross platform ffmpeg wrapper library, and some additional content for things ffmpeg doesn’t handle well. A more friendly API and an easy way to say “open and decompress this, I don’t care how”.

This package contain a command line indexer tool. Used to create index files which can later be used by applications which are useing ffms2 to speed up loading of multimedia files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffmsindex

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

You can also use apt command to install ffmsindex.

sudo apt -y install ffmsindex

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

sudo aptitude install ffmsindex

Summary

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