sfconvert command not found

Introduction

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

sfconvert: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfconvert: command not found

Solutions to sfconvert: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfconvert is provided by audiofile-tools package.

audiofile-tools is:

The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).

This package contains the sfinfo and sfconvert tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install audiofile-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install audiofile-tools.

sudo apt -y install audiofile-tools

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

sudo aptitude install audiofile-tools

Summary

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