scsynth command not found

Introduction

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

scsynth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scsynth: command not found

Solutions to scsynth: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scsynth is provided by supercollider-server package.

supercollider-server is:

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

This package contains the synthesis server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider-server

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

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

sudo apt -y install supercollider-server

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

sudo aptitude install supercollider-server

Summary

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