gnome-disks command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-disks: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-disks: command not found

Solutions to gnome-disks: command not found

How To Fix gnome-disks: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-disks is provided by gnome-disk-utility package.

gnome-disk-utility is:

GNOME Disks is a tool to manage disk drives and media:

• Format and partition drives.
• Mount and unmount partitions.
• Query S.M.A.R.T. attributes.

It utilizes udisks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-disk-utility

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-disk-utility.

sudo apt -y install gnome-disk-utility

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-disk-utility

Summary

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