pw-jack command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pw-jack command not found error message

Introduction

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

pw-jack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pw-jack: command not found

Solutions to pw-jack: command not found

How To Fix pw-jack: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pw-jack is provided by pipewire-audio-client-libraries package.

pipewire-audio-client-libraries is:

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

  • Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
  • Accessing sources of video for consumption.
  • Generating graphs for audio and video processing.

This package contains client libraries allowing programs designed for the ALSA, JACK and PulseAudio APIs to use a PipeWire server for audio playback and recording. They are not used by default, and are currently considered to be experimental.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

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

You can also use apt command to install pipewire-audio-client-libraries.

sudo apt -y install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

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

sudo aptitude install pipewire-audio-client-libraries

Summary

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