pmount command not found

Introduction

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

pmount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pmount: command not found

Solutions to pmount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pmount is provided by pmount package.

pmount is:

pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME’s Utopia project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.

If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to transparently mount encrypted volumes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pmount

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

You can also use apt command to install pmount.

sudo apt -y install pmount

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

sudo aptitude install pmount

Summary

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