pacpl command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
pacpl: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: pacpl: command not found
Solutions to pacpl: command not found
How To Fix pacpl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu pacpl is provided by pacpl package.
pacpl is:
Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another using various external encoders/decoders.
It supports the following audio formats (but the backend program that handles a given format might not be packaged in Debian): 3G2, 3GP, 8SVX, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DSF, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA, FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, MAUD, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA, OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV.
It can also convert audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM, and WMV.
Pacpl also features parallel processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats and independent tag reading & writing. Service menus for KDE (Dolphin/Konqueror), GNOME Nautilus script, and Nemo action script are also provided (see README.Debian).
You can write your own modules in order to add support for new file formats.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install pacpl
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install pacpl.
sudo apt -y install pacpl
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install pacpl
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix pacpl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.