mpc123 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mpc123 command not found error message

Introduction

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

mpc123: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mpc123: command not found

In Ubuntu mpc123 is provided by mpc123 package.

mpc123 is:

mpc123 is a command-line player for the Musepack audio compression format (MPC).

MPC is a lossy compression format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has been vastly improved.

Ability to play remote files is not implemented.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mpc123

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

You can also use apt command to install mpc123.

sudo apt -y install mpc123

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

sudo aptitude install mpc123

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mpc123 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.