id3v2 command not found

Introduction

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

id3v2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: id3v2: command not found

Solutions to id3v2: command not found

How To Fix id3v2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu id3v2 is provided by id3v2 package.

id3v2 is:

A command-line tool to add, modify, remove, or view ID3v2 tags, as well as convert or list ID3v1 tags. ID3 tags are commonly embedded in compressed music files such as MP3 and are the standard way to more fully describe the work than would normally be allowed by putting the information in the filename.

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

sudo apt-get -y install id3v2

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

You can also use apt command to install id3v2.

sudo apt -y install id3v2

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

sudo aptitude install id3v2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix id3v2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.