gigextract command not found

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

Introduction

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

gigextract: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gigextract: command not found

Solutions to gigextract: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gigextract is provided by gigtools package.

gigtools is:

Raw file handling for audio sampler files based on DLS Level 1/2 and Gigasampler. These files are typically used in modern day audio waveform samplers. This package contains the following command line tools:

gigdump: Prints out the content of a .gig file. gigextract: Extracts samples from a .gig file. dlsdump: Prints out the content of a DLS file. rifftree: Prints out the RIFF tree of an arbitrary RIFF container file. sf2dump: Prints out the content of a .sf2 file. sf2extract: Extracts audio samples from a .sf2 file. korgdump: Prints out the content of KORG sound files (.KSF, .KMP). korg2gig: Converts KORG (.KSF, .KMP) sound files to GigaStudio (.gig) files. akaidump: Dump an AKAI media i.e. from a CDROM drive as disk image file to your HD. akaiextract: Extracts audio samples from an AKAI media or from an AKAI disk image file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gigtools

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

You can also use apt command to install gigtools.

sudo apt -y install gigtools

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

sudo aptitude install gigtools

Summary

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