fpcalc command not found

Introduction

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

fpcalc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fpcalc: command not found

Solutions to fpcalc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fpcalc is provided by libchromaprint-tools package.

libchromaprint-tools is:

Chromaprint is a library for calculating audio fingerprints which are used by the Acoustid service. Its main purpose is to provide an accurate identifier for record tracks

This package provides the fpcalc utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libchromaprint-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libchromaprint-tools.

sudo apt -y install libchromaprint-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libchromaprint-tools

Summary

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