vpxdec command not found

Introduction

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

vpxdec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vpxdec: command not found

Solutions to vpxdec: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vpxdec is provided by vpx-tools package.

vpx-tools is:

VP8 and VP9 are open video codecs, originally developed by On2 and released as open source by Google Inc. They are the successor of the VP3 codec, on which the Theora codec was based.

This package contains the commandline tools vpxdec and vpxenc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vpx-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install vpx-tools

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

sudo aptitude install vpx-tools

Summary

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