iem-plugin-simpledecoder command not found

Introduction

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

iem-plugin-simpledecoder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iem-plugin-simpledecoder: command not found

Solutions to iem-plugin-simpledecoder: command not found

How To Fix iem-plugin-simpledecoder: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iem-plugin-simpledecoder is provided by iem-plugin-suite-standalone package.

iem-plugin-suite-standalone is:

The IEM Plug-in Suite is an audio plugin suite created at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (Graz, Austria). It features Higher-Order Ambisonic plug-ins (up to 7th order), among them a number of state of the art encoders, directional compressors, directivity shapers, delay and reverb effects and analysis tools.

This package provides the plugins as standalone applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iem-plugin-suite-standalone

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

You can also use apt command to install iem-plugin-suite-standalone.

sudo apt -y install iem-plugin-suite-standalone

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

sudo aptitude install iem-plugin-suite-standalone

Summary

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