cthumb command not found

Introduction

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

cthumb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cthumb: command not found

Solutions to cthumb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cthumb is provided by cthumb package.

cthumb is:

cthumb allows you to create themable web picture albums, i.e. collections of digital pictures, with small thumbnails of your pictures and with captions. In addition, it optionally allows you to have several views of the collection of pictures. An album is composed of a series of pages, each composed of a collection of pictures. For each page (and each picture), you can have several annotations per picture. cthumb will generate several versions of the page, for each annotation type.

You can customize almost everything in the way the albums look on the screen, from the size of the thumbnails to the background and foreground colors, the border colors, whether you want film-strips, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cthumb

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

You can also use apt command to install cthumb.

sudo apt -y install cthumb

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

sudo aptitude install cthumb

Summary

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