fsview command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fsview command not found error message

Introduction

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

fsview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fsview: command not found

Solutions to fsview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fsview is provided by konq-plugins package.

konq-plugins is:

This package contains a variety of useful plugins for Konqueror, the file manager, web browser and document viewer for KDE. Many of these plugins will appear in Konqueror’s Tools menu.

Web navigation plugins:

  • Akregator feed icon: allows one to add a feed to Akregator from Konqueror
  • Auto Refresh: refresh a webpage at a given rate
  • Bookmarklets: enables the use of bookmarklets, bookmarks containing JavaScript code
  • Document Relations: displays the document relations of a document
  • DOM Tree Viewer: view the DOM tree of the current page
  • KHTML Settings: fast way to change the JavaScript/images/cookies settings
  • Microformat Icon: displays an icon in the statusbar if the page contains a microformat
  • Search Bar: launches web searches from the Konqueror’s toolbar
  • Translate: language translation for the current page using Babelfish
  • UserAgent Changer: quick switch of the UserAgent used for the current site
  • Website Validators: CSS and HTML validation tools
  • Web Archiver: creates archives of websites
  • Crash manager: restores your opened tabs if Konqueror crashes (disabled by default as Konqueror has this feature builtin)

File management plugins:

  • Image Gallery: an easy way to generate a HTML image gallery
  • File Size View (kpart): a proportional view of directories and files based on file size
  • Transform Image (service menu): rotate and flip images
  • Convert To (service menu): convert and image to another format
  • Directory Filter (dolphin): filter directory views

This package is part of the KDE base applications module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install konq-plugins

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

You can also use apt command to install konq-plugins.

sudo apt -y install konq-plugins

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

sudo aptitude install konq-plugins

Summary

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