heif-thumbnailer command not found

Introduction

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

heif-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: heif-thumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to heif-thumbnailer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu heif-thumbnailer is provided by heif-thumbnailer package.

heif-thumbnailer is:

libheif is an ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF file format decoder. HEIF is a new image file format employing HEVC (h.265) image coding for the best compression ratios currently possible.

A thumbnailer for HEIF images that can be used by Nautilus is provided by this package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install heif-thumbnailer

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

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

sudo apt -y install heif-thumbnailer

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

sudo aptitude install heif-thumbnailer

Summary

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