rplayd command not found

Introduction

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

rplayd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rplayd: command not found

Solutions to rplayd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rplayd is provided by rplay-server package.

rplay-server is:

This package contains the rplay server. The rplay server allows sounds to be played on the system.

RPlay allows sounds to be played to and from local and remote Unix systems. Sounds can be played with or without sending audio data over the network using either UDP or TCP/IP. RPlay audio servers can be configured to share sound files with each other.

Support for RPlay is included in several applications. These include xpilot, xlockmore, xboing, fvwm, and ctwm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rplay-server

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

You can also use apt command to install rplay-server.

sudo apt -y install rplay-server

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

sudo aptitude install rplay-server

Summary

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