gscanbus command not found

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

Introduction

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

gscanbus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gscanbus: command not found

Solutions to gscanbus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gscanbus is provided by gscanbus package.

gscanbus is:

gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, with some AV/C support, especially for controlling Camcorders and VCRs. It is intended as a debugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used to simply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linux.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gscanbus

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

You can also use apt command to install gscanbus.

sudo apt -y install gscanbus

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

sudo aptitude install gscanbus

Summary

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