hwp-thumbnailer command not found

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

Introduction

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

hwp-thumbnailer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hwp-thumbnailer: command not found

Solutions to hwp-thumbnailer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hwp-thumbnailer is provided by gnome-hwp-support package.

gnome-hwp-support is:

This is a collection of software for integrating HWP documents in GNOME desktop. It includes:

  • thumbnailer which generates thumbnails of HWP documents.
  • Nautilus properties page for HWP documents.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-hwp-support

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-hwp-support.

sudo apt -y install gnome-hwp-support

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-hwp-support

Summary

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