linux-show-player command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix linux-show-player command not found error message

Introduction

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

linux-show-player: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: linux-show-player: command not found

Solutions to linux-show-player: command not found

How To Fix linux-show-player: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu linux-show-player is provided by linux-show-player package.

linux-show-player is:

Linux Show Player (or LiSP for short) is a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage productions. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. Here a list of the main functionality offered by LiSP:

  • Cart layout (buttons matrix) suited for touchscreens
  • List layout suited for keyboards
  • Large media-format support thanks to GStreamer
  • Realtime sound effects: equalization, pitch shift, speed control, compression.
  • Peak and ReplayGain normalization
  • Undo/Redo changes
  • Remote control over network, between two or more sessions
  • ArtNet Timecode (via OLA)
  • MIDI support for cue triggering
  • MIDI cues (send MIDI messages)
  • Multi-language support

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

sudo apt-get -y install linux-show-player

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

You can also use apt command to install linux-show-player.

sudo apt -y install linux-show-player

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

sudo aptitude install linux-show-player

Summary

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