midisnoop command not found

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

Introduction

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

midisnoop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: midisnoop: command not found

In Ubuntu midisnoop is provided by midisnoop package.

midisnoop is:

Can be used to monitor a MIDI device and/or software, and to send MIDI messages to a MIDI port to see how the device/software responds.

Support both ALSA and JACK MIDI ports via the RtMidi library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install midisnoop

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

You can also use apt command to install midisnoop.

sudo apt -y install midisnoop

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

sudo aptitude install midisnoop

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