id3tag command not found

Introduction

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

id3tag: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: id3tag: command not found

Solutions to id3tag: command not found

How To Fix id3tag: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu id3tag is provided by libid3-tools package.

libid3-tools is:

This package contains some utilities that belong with id3lib, the software library for ID3v1 and ID3v2 tag manipulation. The utilities are: id3cp, id3tag, id3convert, id3info.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libid3-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libid3-tools.

sudo apt -y install libid3-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libid3-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix id3tag command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.