forked-daapd command not found

Introduction

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

forked-daapd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: forked-daapd: command not found

Solutions to forked-daapd: command not found

How To Fix forked-daapd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu forked-daapd is provided by forked-daapd package.

forked-daapd is:

forked-daapd is an iTunes-compatible media server, originally intended as a rewrite of Firefly Media Server (also known as mt-daapd).

It supports a wide range of audio formats, can stream video to iTunes, XBMC and other compatible clients, has support for Apple’s Remote iPhone/iPod application and can stream music to AirPlay devices like the AirPort Express.

It also features RSP support for Roku’s SoundBridge devices and MPD support for Music Player Daemon clients.

Built-in, on-the-fly decoding support enables serving popular free music formats like FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or Musepack to those clients that do not otherwise support them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install forked-daapd

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

You can also use apt command to install forked-daapd.

sudo apt -y install forked-daapd

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

sudo aptitude install forked-daapd

Summary

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