jmtpfs command not found

Introduction

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

jmtpfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jmtpfs: command not found

Solutions to jmtpfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jmtpfs is provided by jmtpfs package.

jmtpfs is:

jmtpfs is a FUSE and libmtp-based filesystem for accessing MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices. It was specifically designed for exchanging files between Linux (and Mac OS X) systems and newer Android devices that support MTP but not USB Mass Storage.

The goal is to create a well-behaved filesystem, allowing tools like find and rsync to work as expected. To enable certain Android apps to detect and use the transferred files, MTP file types are set automatically based on file contents using libmagic.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jmtpfs

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

You can also use apt command to install jmtpfs.

sudo apt -y install jmtpfs

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

sudo aptitude install jmtpfs

Summary

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