baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor command not found

Introduction

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

baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor: command not found

Solutions to baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor is provided by libkf5baloowidgets-bin package.

libkf5baloowidgets-bin is:

Baloo is a framework for searching and managing metadata.

This package contains binaries used by the baloo widgets library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libkf5baloowidgets-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libkf5baloowidgets-bin.

sudo apt -y install libkf5baloowidgets-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libkf5baloowidgets-bin

Summary

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