kpa-thumbnailtool command not found

Introduction

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

kpa-thumbnailtool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kpa-thumbnailtool: command not found

Solutions to kpa-thumbnailtool: command not found

How To Fix kpa-thumbnailtool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kpa-thumbnailtool is provided by kphotoalbum package.

kphotoalbum is:

KPhotoAlbum lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons. It provides a quick and elegant way to lookup groups of images when you have thousands of pictures on your hard disk.

The information associated with each photo is stored in an XML file. Together with its keywords, KPhotoAlbum stores each picture’s MD5 sum, so it will recognize them even if you move them to another directory. KPhotoAlbum can also create HTML galleries with the images you select.

KPhotoAlbum can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities. The kipi-plugins package contains many useful extensions. Among others, it contains extensions for photo manipulation, importing, exporting and batch processing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kphotoalbum

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

You can also use apt command to install kphotoalbum.

sudo apt -y install kphotoalbum

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

sudo aptitude install kphotoalbum

Summary

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