kwave command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix kwave command not found error message

Introduction

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

kwave: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kwave: command not found

Solutions to kwave: command not found

How To Fix kwave: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kwave is provided by kwave package.

kwave is:

Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment.

With Kwave you can record, play back, import and edit many sorts of audio files including multi-channel files.

Kwave includes some plugins to transform audio files in several ways and presents a graphical view with a complete zoom- and scroll capability.

Its features include:

  • 24 Bit Support
  • Undo/Redo
  • Use of multicore CPUs (SMP, hyperthreading)
  • Simple Drag & Drop
  • Realtime Pre-Listen for some effects
  • Support for multi-track files
  • Playback and recording via native ALSA, PulseAudio (or OSS deprecated)
  • Playback via Phonon
  • Load and edit-capability for large files (can use virtual memory)
  • Reading and auto-repair of damaged wav-files
  • Supports multiple windows
  • Extendable Plugin interface
  • a nice splashscreen
  • some label handling

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

sudo apt-get -y install kwave

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

You can also use apt command to install kwave.

sudo apt -y install kwave

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

sudo aptitude install kwave

Summary

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