ncmpcpp command not found

Introduction

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

ncmpcpp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncmpcpp: command not found

Solutions to ncmpcpp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ncmpcpp is provided by ncmpcpp package.

ncmpcpp is:

ncmpcpp is almost an exact clone of ncmpc which is a text-mode client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. It provides a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD and contains some new features ncmpc doesn’t have. It’s been also rewritten from scratch in C++.

New features include:

• tag editor;
• playlists editor;
• easy to use search screen;
• media library screen;
• lyrics screen;
• possibility of going to any position in currently playing track without rewinding/fastforwarding;
• multi colored main window (if you want);
• songs can be added to playlist more than once;
• a lot of minor useful functions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncmpcpp

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

You can also use apt command to install ncmpcpp.

sudo apt -y install ncmpcpp

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

sudo aptitude install ncmpcpp

Summary

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