lxshortcut command not found

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

Introduction

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

lxshortcut: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxshortcut: command not found

In Ubuntu lxshortcut is provided by libfm-tools package.

libfm-tools is:

LibFM provides file management functions built on top of Glib/GIO giving a convenient higher-level API.

This package contains applications libfm-pref-apps and lxshortcut.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfm-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libfm-tools.

sudo apt -y install libfm-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libfm-tools

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