multicat_validate command not found

Introduction

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

multicat_validate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: multicat_validate: command not found

Solutions to multicat_validate: command not found

How To Fix multicat_validate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu multicat_validate is provided by multicat package.

multicat is:

The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular.

The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.

The package contain fives programs: multicat, ingests, offsets, aggregartp and desaggregartp.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multicat

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

You can also use apt command to install multicat.

sudo apt -y install multicat

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

sudo aptitude install multicat

Summary

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