osspd command not found

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

Introduction

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

osspd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osspd: command not found

Solutions to osspd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu osspd is provided by osspd package.

osspd is:

OSS Proxy Daemon is a Linux userland OSS sound device (/dev/[a]dsp and /dev/mixer) implementation using CUSE. Currently it supports forwarding OSS sound streams to PulseAudio and ALSA.

Actually emulating the OSS devices makes for a more robust emulation compared to OSS wrappers using LD_PRELOAD, like aoss and padsp. It also works better when running foreign-architecture applications or using old libc versions for compatibility reasons.

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

sudo apt-get -y install osspd

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

You can also use apt command to install osspd.

sudo apt -y install osspd

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

sudo aptitude install osspd

Summary

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