hdcpd command not found

Introduction

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

hdcpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hdcpd: command not found

Solutions to hdcpd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hdcpd is provided by intel-hdcp package.

intel-hdcp is:

The Intel(R) unified HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a user space implementation to prevent copying of digital audio & video content across digital display interfaces. It provides Linux user space implementation to enable the HDCP1.4 and HDCP2.2 protection for external digital display interfaces (HDMI/DP).

This package contains the userspace daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install intel-hdcp

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

You can also use apt command to install intel-hdcp.

sudo apt -y install intel-hdcp

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

sudo aptitude install intel-hdcp

Summary

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