webcamoid command not found

Introduction

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

webcamoid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: webcamoid: command not found

Solutions to webcamoid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu webcamoid is provided by webcamoid package.

webcamoid is:

webcamoid allows one to capture, save and view a video stream. It also can do a lot of funny things.

Features:

• Take pictures and record videos with the webcam.
• Manages multiple webcams.
• GUI interface.
• Custom controls for each webcam.
• Add funny effects to the webcam.
• +60 effects available.
• Effects with live previews.
• Translated to many languages.
• Use custom network and local files as capture devices.
• Capture from desktop.
• Many recording formats.
• Virtual webcam support for feeding other programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install webcamoid

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

You can also use apt command to install webcamoid.

sudo apt -y install webcamoid

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

sudo aptitude install webcamoid

Summary

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