sndioctl command not found

Introduction

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

sndioctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sndioctl: command not found

Solutions to sndioctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sndioctl is provided by sndio-tools package.

sndio-tools is:

Sndio is a small, simple audio and MIDI framework, developed by the OpenBSD project. It provides a lightweight audio and MIDI server and a well-documented userspace API to access the server or audio hardware in a uniform way. Sndio is designed to work well for both desktop and professional music applications, and supports features found in more complex sound systems such as per-application volume control, software mixing, and network transparency.

This package contains command-line tools useful in conjunction with a local or remote sndio server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sndio-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install sndio-tools

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

sudo aptitude install sndio-tools

Summary

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