gwyddion-thumbnailer command not found

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

Introduction

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

gwyddion-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gwyddion-thumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to gwyddion-thumbnailer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gwyddion-thumbnailer is provided by gwyddion package.

gwyddion is:

Gwyddion is a modular program for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) data visualization and analysis. It is primarily intended for analysis of height field data obtained by microscopy techniques like

  • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM),
  • Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM),
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM),
  • Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (SNOM or NSOM) and others. However, it can be used for arbitrary height field and image analysis.

This package contains the main application and its modules. It also contains a GNOME (and Xfce) thumbnailer which creates previews for all file types known to Gwyddion.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gwyddion

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

You can also use apt command to install gwyddion.

sudo apt -y install gwyddion

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

sudo aptitude install gwyddion

Summary

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