pavumeter command not found

Introduction

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

pavumeter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pavumeter: command not found

Solutions to pavumeter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pavumeter is provided by pavumeter package.

pavumeter is:

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.

A simple volume meter for the PulseAudio sound server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pavumeter

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

You can also use apt command to install pavumeter.

sudo apt -y install pavumeter

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

sudo aptitude install pavumeter

Summary

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