zvbi-atsc-cc command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix zvbi-atsc-cc command not found error message

Introduction

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

zvbi-atsc-cc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zvbi-atsc-cc: command not found

Solutions to zvbi-atsc-cc: command not found

How To Fix zvbi-atsc-cc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu zvbi-atsc-cc is provided by zvbi package.

zvbi is:

Television broadcasts use the VBI to transmit text such as closed captioning (NTSC), Teletext (PAL/SECAM), and now Intercast and the ATVEC Internet television encodings. The zvbi library is used to capture and decode raw VBI data.

This package contains the following utilities:

zvbid, a proxy for VBI devices. It forwards VBI data streams to one or more connected clients and manages channel change requests.
zvbi-atsc-cc, a command-line utility that captures ATSC TV transmissions using a Linux DVB device and decodes the enclosed Closed Caption data. It can record both NTSC caption (EIA 608-B) and DTVCC caption (CEA 708-C).
zvbi-chains, a wrapper which executes the VBI application given on the command line while overloading several C library calls so that the application can be forced to access VBI devices via the VBI proxy instead of device files directly.
zvbi-ntsc-cc, a command-line utility for decoding and capturing closed captioning (CC) for NTSC and webtv.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zvbi

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

You can also use apt command to install zvbi.

sudo apt -y install zvbi

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

sudo aptitude install zvbi

Summary

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