evince-thumbnailer command not found

Introduction

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

evince-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: evince-thumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to evince-thumbnailer: command not found

How To Fix evince-thumbnailer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu evince-thumbnailer is provided by evince package.

evince is:

Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install evince

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

You can also use apt command to install evince.

sudo apt -y install evince

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

sudo aptitude install evince

Summary

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