mythtranscode command not found

Introduction

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

mythtranscode: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mythtranscode: command not found

Solutions to mythtranscode: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mythtranscode is provided by mythtv-transcode-utils package.

mythtv-transcode-utils is:

Some utilities are applicable for both a frontend or a backend machine. This package provides utilities that can be used on both without requiring an entire backend to be installed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mythtv-transcode-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install mythtv-transcode-utils.

sudo apt -y install mythtv-transcode-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mythtv-transcode-utils

Summary

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