mythexternrecorder command not found

Introduction

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

mythexternrecorder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mythexternrecorder: command not found

Solutions to mythexternrecorder: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mythexternrecorder is provided by mythtv-backend package.

mythtv-backend is:

MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording and viewing television programs. Refer to the mythtv package for more information.

This package contains only the server software, which provides video and audio capture and encoding services. In order to be useful, it requires a mythtv-frontend installation, either on the same system or one reachable via the network.

A database is also required. The mythtv-database package must be installed, either on the same system, or one reachable via the network.

For a complete installation of all MythTV components, install the ‘mythtv’ package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mythtv-backend

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

You can also use apt command to install mythtv-backend.

sudo apt -y install mythtv-backend

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

sudo aptitude install mythtv-backend

Summary

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