fusesmb command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fusesmb command not found error message

Introduction

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

fusesmb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fusesmb: command not found

Solutions to fusesmb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fusesmb is provided by fusesmb package.

fusesmb is:

fusesmb is a filesystem client based on the SMB file transfer protocol. This gives the ability to transparently exchange files with Microsoft Windows servers and Unix servers running Samba.

It is based on FUSE (userspace filesystem framework for Linux), thus you will have to prepare fuse kernel module to be able to use it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fusesmb

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

You can also use apt command to install fusesmb.

sudo apt -y install fusesmb

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

sudo aptitude install fusesmb

Summary

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