fusermount command not found

Introduction

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

fusermount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fusermount: command not found

Solutions to fusermount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fusermount is provided by fuse3 package.

fuse3 is:

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fuse3

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

You can also use apt command to install fuse3.

sudo apt -y install fuse3

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

sudo aptitude install fuse3

Summary

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