uvcdynctrl command not found

Introduction

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

uvcdynctrl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uvcdynctrl: command not found

Solutions to uvcdynctrl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uvcdynctrl is provided by uvcdynctrl package.

uvcdynctrl is:

This package provides the tools needed to add vendor specific controls to uvc devices.

uvcdynctrl is part of the Webcam Library.

The Webcam Library libwebcam is designed to simplify the development of webcam applications, primarily on Linux but with an option to be ported to other platforms, in particular Solaris. It realizes part of what the unwritten Video4Linux user space library was always supposed to be: an easy to use library that shields its users from many of the difficulties and problems of using the V4L2 API directly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install uvcdynctrl

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

You can also use apt command to install uvcdynctrl.

sudo apt -y install uvcdynctrl

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

sudo aptitude install uvcdynctrl

Summary

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