frescobaldi command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix frescobaldi command not found error message

Introduction

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

frescobaldi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: frescobaldi: command not found

Solutions to frescobaldi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu frescobaldi is provided by frescobaldi package.

frescobaldi is:

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Features:

  • Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
  • Music view with advanced Point & Click
  • MIDI player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
  • MIDI capturing to enter music
  • Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score
  • Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts
  • Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version
  • Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in Frescobaldi User Guide
  • Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
  • MusicXML, MIDI and ABC import
  • Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
  • Translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese and Ukrainian.

Music functions:

  • Transpose music
  • Change music from relative to absolute and vice versa
  • Change the language used for note names
  • Change the rhythm (double, halve, add/remove dots, copy, paste) etc.
  • Hyphenate lyrics using word-processor hyphenation dictionaries
  • Add spanners, dynamics, articulation easily using the Quick Insert panel
  • Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences

In order to use lyric hyphenation, please install your languages’ appropriate hyphenation packages, e.g. hyphen-fr for French, hyphen-ca for Catalan, etc.

Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and MS Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

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

sudo apt-get -y install frescobaldi

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

You can also use apt command to install frescobaldi.

sudo apt -y install frescobaldi

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

sudo aptitude install frescobaldi

Summary

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