subdownloader command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix subdownloader command not found error message

Introduction

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

subdownloader: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: subdownloader: command not found

Solutions to subdownloader: command not found

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

In Ubuntu subdownloader is provided by subdownloader package.

subdownloader is:

SubDownloader is a tool to automatically download/upload subtitles for video files (DIVX, MPEG, AVI, etc.) and DVDs using fast hashing.

Features:

  • Fast hashing algorithm (27 GB movies/7 seconds)
  • Recursively folders search
  • Autodetect language of the subtitles
  • Upload entire series seasons subtitles in less than 1 minute

This package contains the GUI front-end, common files and a cli interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install subdownloader

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

You can also use apt command to install subdownloader.

sudo apt -y install subdownloader

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

sudo aptitude install subdownloader

Summary

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