sndfile-waveform command not found

Introduction

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

sndfile-waveform: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sndfile-waveform: command not found

Solutions to sndfile-waveform: command not found

How To Fix sndfile-waveform: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sndfile-waveform is provided by sndfile-tools package.

sndfile-tools is:

sndfile-tools is a collection of programs which use libsndfile and other libraries to do useful things like generate spectrograms using libfftw and libcairo and play sound via the JACK Audio Connection Kit daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sndfile-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install sndfile-tools

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

sudo aptitude install sndfile-tools

Summary

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