harvid command not found

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

Introduction

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

harvid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: harvid: command not found

In Ubuntu harvid is provided by harvid package.

harvid is:

Harvid is a HTTP server to efficiently extract, cache and serve still images from movie files.

It provides for frame-accurate decoding and is main use-case is to act as backend and second level cache for rendering the videotimeline in Ardour.

Harvid uses ffmpeg/libav and supports a wide variety of video codecs and formats.

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

sudo apt-get -y install harvid

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

You can also use apt command to install harvid.

sudo apt -y install harvid

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

sudo aptitude install harvid

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