recordmydesktop command not found

Introduction

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

recordmydesktop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: recordmydesktop: command not found

Solutions to recordmydesktop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu recordmydesktop is provided by recordmydesktop package.

recordmydesktop is:

The application produces an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

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

sudo apt-get -y install recordmydesktop

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

You can also use apt command to install recordmydesktop.

sudo apt -y install recordmydesktop

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

sudo aptitude install recordmydesktop

Summary

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