pavucontrol command not found

Introduction

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

pavucontrol: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pavucontrol: command not found

Solutions to pavucontrol: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pavucontrol is provided by pavucontrol package.

pavucontrol is:

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK+ based volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows you to redirect a playback stream to another output device without interrupting playback.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pavucontrol

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

You can also use apt command to install pavucontrol.

sudo apt -y install pavucontrol

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

sudo aptitude install pavucontrol

Summary

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