qvlc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qvlc command not found error message

Introduction

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

qvlc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qvlc: command not found

Solutions to qvlc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qvlc is provided by vlc-plugin-qt package.

vlc-plugin-qt is:

VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

This package contains VLC’s Qt interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-qt

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

You can also use apt command to install vlc-plugin-qt.

sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-qt

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

sudo aptitude install vlc-plugin-qt

Summary

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