jack-dssi-host command not found

Introduction

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

jack-dssi-host: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jack-dssi-host: command not found

Solutions to jack-dssi-host: command not found

How To Fix jack-dssi-host: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu jack-dssi-host is provided by dssi-host-jack package.

dssi-host-jack is:

DSSI is an API for audio plugins, with particular application for software synthesis plugins with native user interfaces.

DSSI is an open specification developed for use in Linux audio applications, although it is portable to other platforms. It may be thought of as LADSPA-for-instruments, or something comparable to VSTi.

This package contains an example DSSI host which is useful for testing new plugins. It listens for MIDI events on an ALSA sequencer port, delivers them to DSSI synths and outputs the result via JACK. It does not currently support audio input (e.g. for DSSI effects plugins).

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

sudo apt-get -y install dssi-host-jack

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

You can also use apt command to install dssi-host-jack.

sudo apt -y install dssi-host-jack

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

sudo aptitude install dssi-host-jack

Summary

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