gsf-office-thumbnailer command not found

Introduction

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

gsf-office-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gsf-office-thumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to gsf-office-thumbnailer: command not found

How To Fix gsf-office-thumbnailer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gsf-office-thumbnailer is provided by libgsf-bin package.

libgsf-bin is:

The GNOME Structured File Library aims to provide an efficient extensible I/O abstraction for dealing with different structured file formats.

These are the programs that are shipped as part of libgsf. They include a thumbnail generator, a tar-like archiver application and a VBA macro extractor.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgsf-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libgsf-bin.

sudo apt -y install libgsf-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libgsf-bin

Summary

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