whip-client command not found

Introduction

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

whip-client: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whip-client: command not found

Solutions to whip-client: command not found

How To Fix whip-client: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu whip-client is provided by simple-whip-client package.

simple-whip-client is:

simple-whip-client is a WHIP client implementation, using GStreamer.

WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP) is a simple HTTP based protocol that will allow WebRTC based ingest of content into streaming servics and/or CDNs.

GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simple-whip-client

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

You can also use apt command to install simple-whip-client.

sudo apt -y install simple-whip-client

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

sudo aptitude install simple-whip-client

Summary

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