exe-thumbnailer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix exe-thumbnailer command not found error message

Introduction

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

exe-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exe-thumbnailer: command not found

In Ubuntu exe-thumbnailer is provided by icoextract-thumbnailer package.

icoextract-thumbnailer is:

icoextract is an icon extraction library for Windows PE files (.exe/.dll)

This package installs a Windows executable thumbnailer for file managers supporting Freedesktop.org thumbnailers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install icoextract-thumbnailer

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

You can also use apt command to install icoextract-thumbnailer.

sudo apt -y install icoextract-thumbnailer

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

sudo aptitude install icoextract-thumbnailer

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