fusefat command not found

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

Introduction

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

fusefat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fusefat: command not found

Solutions to fusefat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fusefat is provided by fusefat package.

fusefat is:

This module for the FUSE kernel service allows any FUSE-enabled user to mount FAT file systems.

The module has been initially written for UMView, the user-mode implementation of View-OS. If you want to allow completely user-mode disk images mounting (with no kernel/superuser support at all), take a look at umview-mod-umfusefat and its dependencies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fusefat

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

You can also use apt command to install fusefat.

sudo apt -y install fusefat

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

sudo aptitude install fusefat

Summary

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