ffmpegthumbnailer command not found

Introduction

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

ffmpegthumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ffmpegthumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to ffmpegthumbnailer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ffmpegthumbnailer is provided by ffmpegthumbnailer package.

ffmpegthumbnailer is:

FFmpegthumbnailer is a lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers to create thumbnails for your video files. The thumbnailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.

This package contains the ffmpegthumbnailer executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffmpegthumbnailer

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

You can also use apt command to install ffmpegthumbnailer.

sudo apt -y install ffmpegthumbnailer

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

sudo aptitude install ffmpegthumbnailer

Summary

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