opusdec command not found

Introduction

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

opusdec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: opusdec: command not found

Solutions to opusdec: command not found

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

In Ubuntu opusdec is provided by opus-tools package.

opus-tools is:

This package provides the reference implementations of encoder and decoder utilities for libopus. People implementing their own support for Opus are encouraged to check their code for interoperability with these tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opus-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install opus-tools.

sudo apt -y install opus-tools

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

sudo aptitude install opus-tools

Summary

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