kid3-qt command not found

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

Introduction

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

kid3-qt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kid3-qt: command not found

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

kid3-qt 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 does not use KDE libraries, if you use KDE you should use kid3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kid3-qt

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

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

sudo apt -y install kid3-qt

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

sudo aptitude install kid3-qt

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