ncplayer command not found

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

Introduction

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

ncplayer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncplayer: command not found

Solutions to ncplayer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ncplayer is provided by notcurses-bin package.

notcurses-bin is:

Notcurses facilitates the creation of modern TUI programs, making full use of Unicode and 24-bit TrueColor. It presents an API similar to that of Curses, and rides atop Terminfo.

These utilities from the Notcurses project include notcurses-demo (a demonstration of various libnotcurses capabilities), ncplayer (a character mode multimedia player), ncls (a file lister that displays multimedia), and other tools. Unit tests are furthermore bundled as notcurses-tester.

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

sudo apt-get -y install notcurses-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install notcurses-bin.

sudo apt -y install notcurses-bin

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

sudo aptitude install notcurses-bin

Summary

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