snapserver command not found

Introduction

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

snapserver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: snapserver: command not found

Solutions to snapserver: command not found

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

In Ubuntu snapserver is provided by snapserver package.

snapserver is:

Snapcast is a multi-room client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It’s not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multi-room solution.

The server’s audio input is a named pipe /tmp/snapfifo. All data that is fed into this file will be send to the connected clients. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in conjunction with the music player daemon or Mopidy, which can be configured to use a named pipe as audio output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install snapserver

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

You can also use apt command to install snapserver.

sudo apt -y install snapserver

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

sudo aptitude install snapserver

Summary

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