ethumbd command not found

Introduction

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

ethumbd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ethumbd: command not found

Solutions to ethumbd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ethumbd is provided by libethumb-client-bin package.

libethumb-client-bin is:

Ethumb uses Evas to generate thumbnail images of given files. The API allows great customization of the generated files and also helps complying to FreeDesktop.Org Thumbnail Specification.

It also provide a D-Bus server to reduce the performance costs of thumbnail generation and management. Ethumb-Client creates thumbnails by communicating with a thumbnail generation server using standard D-Bus protocol.

This is part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

This package provides the ethumbd helper binary and the associated D-Bus service file that are internally used by libethumb-client.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libethumb-client-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libethumb-client-bin.

sudo apt -y install libethumb-client-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libethumb-client-bin

Summary

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