flake command not found

Introduction

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

flake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flake: command not found

Solutions to flake: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flake is provided by flake package.

flake is:

The purpose of Flake is to be an alternative to the FLAC reference encoder with the goal of increasing encoding speed and implementing experimental features.

Flake encodes WAV audio files into lossless FLAC files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flake

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

You can also use apt command to install flake.

sudo apt -y install flake

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

sudo aptitude install flake

Summary

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