qsynth command not found

Introduction

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

qsynth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qsynth: command not found

Solutions to qsynth: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qsynth is provided by qsynth package.

qsynth is:

QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt toolkit. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths but for the moment it wraps FluidSynth (http://www.fluidsynth.org).

FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qsynth

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

You can also use apt command to install qsynth.

sudo apt -y install qsynth

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

sudo aptitude install qsynth

Summary

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