mediainfo-gui command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mediainfo-gui command not found error message

Introduction

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

mediainfo-gui: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mediainfo-gui: command not found

Solutions to mediainfo-gui: command not found

How To Fix mediainfo-gui: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mediainfo-gui is provided by mediainfo-gui package.

mediainfo-gui is:

MediaInfo is a utility used for retrieving technical information and other metadata about audio or video files.

A non-exhaustive list of the information MediaInfo can retrieve from media files include:

  • General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration…
  • Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate…
  • Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate…
  • Text: language of subtitle
  • Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters

MediaInfo supports the following formats:

  • Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)…
  • Video Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC…)
  • Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF…
  • Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI…

This package contains the graphical user interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mediainfo-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install mediainfo-gui.

sudo apt -y install mediainfo-gui

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

sudo aptitude install mediainfo-gui

Summary

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