lame command not found

Introduction

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

lame: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lame: command not found

Solutions to lame: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lame is provided by lame package.

lame is:

LAME (recursive acronym for “LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder”) is a research project for learning about and improving MP3 encoding technology. LAME includes an MP3 encoding library, a simple frontend application, and other tools for sound analysis, as well as convenience tools.

This package contains the frontend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lame

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

You can also use apt command to install lame.

sudo apt -y install lame

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

sudo aptitude install lame

Summary

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