webcamd-setup command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix webcamd-setup command not found error message

Introduction

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

webcamd-setup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: webcamd-setup: command not found

In Ubuntu webcamd-setup is provided by webcamd package.

webcamd is:

webcamd take images from your webcam and put it in your local web directory or upload it by FTP.

What it does:

Take pics every X seconds.
Add date & hour on pictures, with or without a border.
Make HTML page for it.
Stop camera, putting an offline webpage.
To take pics when you want if the daemon is running.
Upload pics by ftp on a remote server or create local file if a local web server is running.
Customise HTML templates easily.

You can configure the program easily with a small and simple configuration file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install webcamd

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

You can also use apt command to install webcamd.

sudo apt -y install webcamd

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

sudo aptitude install webcamd

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