mate-file-share-properties command not found

Introduction

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

mate-file-share-properties: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-file-share-properties: command not found

Solutions to mate-file-share-properties: command not found

How To Fix mate-file-share-properties: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-file-share-properties is provided by mate-user-share package.

mate-user-share is:

MATE user share is a small tool that binds together various free software projects to bring easy to use user-level file sharing to the masses.

The program is meant to run in the background when the user is logged in, and when file sharing is enabled a webdav server is started that shares the $HOME/Public folder. The share is then published to all computers on the local network using mDNS/rendezvous, so that it shows up in the Network location in GNOME.

The dav server used is Apache, so you need that installed. Avahi or Howl is used for mDNS support, so you need to have that installed and mDNSResolver running.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-user-share

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-user-share.

sudo apt -y install mate-user-share

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

sudo aptitude install mate-user-share

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mate-file-share-properties command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.