vidcat command not found

Introduction

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

vidcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vidcat: command not found

Solutions to vidcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vidcat is provided by w3cam package.

w3cam is:

w3cam is a simple CGI to retrieve images from video4linux device. In other words this program will only run on Linux machines which support a video4linux-device.

w3cam supports a plain mode and a gui mode. In the gui mode a html with a form is supplied to change some parameters with the mouse

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

sudo apt-get -y install w3cam

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

You can also use apt command to install w3cam.

sudo apt -y install w3cam

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

sudo aptitude install w3cam

Summary

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