kid3-cli command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix kid3-cli command not found error message

Introduction

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

kid3-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kid3-cli: command not found

Solutions to kid3-cli: command not found

How To Fix kid3-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kid3-cli is provided by kid3-cli package.

kid3-cli is:

With Kid3, an audio tag editor you can:

  • Edit ID3v1.1 tags in your MP3 files
  • Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames in your MP3 files
  • Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
  • Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, Opus, DSF, FLAC, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules.
  • Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together
  • Generate tags from filenames
  • Generate tags from the contents of tag fields
  • Generate filenames from tags
  • Generate playlist files
  • Automatic case conversion and string translation
  • Import and export album data
  • Import from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon

This package contains a command line interface for Kid3, for a GUI you can use kid3-qt or kid3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kid3-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install kid3-cli.

sudo apt -y install kid3-cli

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

sudo aptitude install kid3-cli

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix kid3-cli command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.