pyprinttags command not found

Introduction

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

pyprinttags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pyprinttags: command not found

Solutions to pyprinttags: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pyprinttags is provided by python3-taglib package.

python3-taglib is:

Pytaglib provides an easy interface to read and write metadata of audio files in Python. It relies on the TagLib library and thus supports all formats that are supported by TagLib, which include all relevant formats in use today.

Pytaglib allows you to use arbitrary tag names (not only the most common ones like TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, …) and even define multiple values for the same tag, as long as the metadata system of the underlying audio file supports that.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-taglib

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-taglib.

sudo apt -y install python3-taglib

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

sudo aptitude install python3-taglib

Summary

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