theora_player_example command not found

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

Introduction

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

theora_player_example: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: theora_player_example: command not found

In Ubuntu theora_player_example is provided by libtheora-bin package.

libtheora-bin is:

Theora is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed video format.

This package contains a reference implementation of an encoder and a decoder.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtheora-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libtheora-bin.

sudo apt -y install libtheora-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libtheora-bin

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