growisofs command not found

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

Introduction

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

growisofs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: growisofs: command not found

In Ubuntu growisofs is provided by growisofs package.

growisofs is:

growisofs is a general purpose DVD recording program that supports:

random-access media (DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, plain files, hard disk partitions)
mastering multisession DVD media (DVD+R, DVD-R/-RW, and Blu-ray Disc)
first-/single-session recording of arbitrary pre-mastered image (formatted as UDF, ISO9660 or any other file system, if formatted at all) to all supported DVD media types.

growisofs is able to either write pre-created ISO images or create them on-the-fly (by calling genisoimage).

This package also contains dvd+rw-format, a utility to format a DVD+RW media.

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

sudo apt-get -y install growisofs

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

You can also use apt command to install growisofs.

sudo apt -y install growisofs

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

sudo aptitude install growisofs

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