playmidi command not found

Introduction

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

playmidi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: playmidi: command not found

Solutions to playmidi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu playmidi is provided by playmidi package.

playmidi is:

Playmidi is a MIDI file player that will play back using FM, GUS, SoundBlaster or external MIDI. It also supports Creative Music Files (CMF), Microsoft RIFF (RMI) files and large MIDI archives from games such as Ultima 7.

The player may be used with a text interface or a graphical interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install playmidi

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

You can also use apt command to install playmidi.

sudo apt -y install playmidi

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

sudo aptitude install playmidi

Summary

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