mfx-tracer-config command not found

Introduction

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

mfx-tracer-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mfx-tracer-config: command not found

Solutions to mfx-tracer-config: command not found

How To Fix mfx-tracer-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mfx-tracer-config is provided by libmfx-tools package.

libmfx-tools is:

Intel® Media SDK provides an API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel® platforms with integrated graphics.

Supported video encoders: HEVC, AVC, MPEG-2, JPEG Supported Video decoders: HEVC, AVC, VP8, MPEG-2, VC1, JPEG Supported video pre-processing filters: Color Conversion, Deinterlace, Denoise, Resize, Rotate, Composition

This package contains tools (asg-hevc and hevc_fei_extractor) and a test to check the functionality.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmfx-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libmfx-tools.

sudo apt -y install libmfx-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libmfx-tools

Summary

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