smplayer command not found

Introduction

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

smplayer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smplayer: command not found

Solutions to smplayer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smplayer is provided by smplayer package.

smplayer is:

Qt5 front-end for mplayer and forks, with basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave… don’t worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume…

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

sudo apt-get -y install smplayer

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

You can also use apt command to install smplayer.

sudo apt -y install smplayer

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

sudo aptitude install smplayer

Summary

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