scantv command not found

Introduction

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

scantv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scantv: command not found

Solutions to scantv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scantv is provided by scantv package.

scantv is:

XawTV is a set of software for watching and recording television channels and webcams.

This package provides a utility that can scan a channel set for TV stations and write the ones found in an xawtv configuration file (which is also read by some other utilities such as fbtv). It attempts to extract the station names from inter-frame (VBI) data as well.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scantv

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

You can also use apt command to install scantv.

sudo apt -y install scantv

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

sudo aptitude install scantv

Summary

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