fuse-sdl command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fuse-sdl command not found error message

Introduction

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

fuse-sdl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fuse-sdl: command not found

Solutions to fuse-sdl: command not found

How To Fix fuse-sdl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fuse-sdl is provided by fuse-emulator-sdl package.

fuse-emulator-sdl is:

Fuse is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator. It supports several models (including 16K/48K/128K/+2/+2A/+3 and some clones), with quite faithful emulation of the display and sound.

Its features include:

  • Accurate Spectrum 16K/48K/128K/+2/+2A/+3 emulation.
  • Working Spectrum +3e and SE, Timex TC2048, TC2068 and TS2068, Pentagon 128, “512” (Pentagon 128 with extra memory) and 1024 and Scorpion ZS 256 emulation.
  • Runs at true Speccy speed on any computer you’re likely to try it on.
  • It can load Z80, SZX and SNA snapshots, TAP and TZX virtual-tape files (including accelerated loading), MDR microdrive images and DSK floppy disk images, among many others.
  • Sound.
  • Built-in debugger.
  • Emulation of most of the common joysticks used on the Spectrum (including Kempston, Sinclair and Cursor joysticks).
  • Emulation of some of the printers you could attach to a Spectrum.
  • Support for the RZX input recording file format, including rollback and ‘competition mode’.
  • Recording of movies to FMF files.
  • Emulation of the Currah µSource, DivIDE, DivMMC, Interface 1, Kempston mouse, Multiface One/128/3, Spectrum +3e, ZXATASP, ZXCF and ZXMMC interfaces.
  • Emulation of the Covox, Fuller audio box, Melodik and SpecDrum audio interfaces.
  • Emulation of the Beta 128, +D, Didaktik 80/40, DISCiPLE and Opus Discovery disk interfaces.
  • Emulation of the Spectranet and SpeccyBoot network interfaces.
  • Support for the Recreated ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard.

This package provides binaries for the SDL version of Fuse.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fuse-emulator-sdl

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

You can also use apt command to install fuse-emulator-sdl.

sudo apt -y install fuse-emulator-sdl

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

sudo aptitude install fuse-emulator-sdl

Summary

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