simplescreenrecorder command not found

Introduction

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

simplescreenrecorder: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simplescreenrecorder: command not found

Solutions to simplescreenrecorder: command not found

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

In Ubuntu simplescreenrecorder is provided by simplescreenrecorder package.

simplescreenrecorder is:

Simple Screen Recorder is, despite its name, an actually feature-rich screen recorder. The name reflects the fact that it is simple to use unlike many other free screen recording applications available. It can be easily configured to start recording from an intuitive wizard-like interface.

It can record the entire screen or part of it directly. The recording can be paused and resumed at any time. Many different file formats and codecs are supported. To perform an X11 recording, all it takes is selecting an area on the root window with the mouse, choosing an output file and pressing record, either by using the mouse or using a hotkey.

It has a Qt-based graphical user interface.

Its complexity becomes apparent in its powerful features. It allows one to record X11 screen areas and fullscreen OpenGL applications including sound supporting both ALSA, PulseAudio, JACK and OSS. It uses libavformat to encode the recorded material into a variety of video formats. Scaling the recorded video is possible as well as configuring the encoding quality for the codec chosen directly from the user interface.

This package contains the main program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simplescreenrecorder

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

You can also use apt command to install simplescreenrecorder.

sudo apt -y install simplescreenrecorder

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

sudo aptitude install simplescreenrecorder

Summary

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