guestmount command not found

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

Introduction

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

guestmount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guestmount: command not found

In Ubuntu guestmount is provided by guestmount package.

guestmount is:

The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.

This package contains the guestmount and guestunmount programs for mounting virtual machine filesystems and other disk images on the host.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guestmount

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

You can also use apt command to install guestmount.

sudo apt -y install guestmount

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

sudo aptitude install guestmount

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