mkvtoolnix-gui command not found

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

Introduction

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

mkvtoolnix-gui: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkvtoolnix-gui: command not found

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

mkvtoolnix-gui is:

Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML.

The mmg tool is a graphical user interface for the mkvmerge program, which allow one to create Matroska files from other formats.

This package also contains a graphical version of the mkvinfo tool, which allow one to get information about a Matroska file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mkvtoolnix-gui

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

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

sudo apt -y install mkvtoolnix-gui

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

sudo aptitude install mkvtoolnix-gui

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