jack-stdout command not found

Introduction

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

jack-stdout: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jack-stdout: command not found

Solutions to jack-stdout: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jack-stdout is provided by jack-stdio package.

jack-stdio is:

jack-stdout is a small tool that writes JACK audio-sample data to buffered standard output. jack-stdin reads raw audio data from standard input and writes it to a JACK audio port.

By default jack-stdout writes 16 bit signed integer raw audio data (much like mpg123 -s at JACK’s samplerate, but it can output signed/unsigned 8/16/24/32 bit integer and 32bit floating-point data, both big/little endian.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jack-stdio

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

You can also use apt command to install jack-stdio.

sudo apt -y install jack-stdio

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

sudo aptitude install jack-stdio

Summary

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