wavfilter command not found

Introduction

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

wavfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wavfilter: command not found

Solutions to wavfilter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wavfilter is provided by aften package.

aften is:

Aften is an audio encoder which generates compressed audio streams based on ATSC A/52 specification. This type of audio is also known as AC-3 or Dolby® Digital and is one of the audio codecs used in DVD-Video content.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aften

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

You can also use apt command to install aften.

sudo apt -y install aften

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

sudo aptitude install aften

Summary

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