mount.fuse-ext2 command not found

Introduction

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

mount.fuse-ext2: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mount.fuse-ext2: command not found

Solutions to mount.fuse-ext2: command not found

How To Fix mount.fuse-ext2: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mount.fuse-ext2 is provided by fuseext2 package.

fuseext2 is:

This module for the FUSE kernel service allows any FUSE-enabled user to mount Second Extended file systems, e.g. disk images.

The module has been initially written for UMView, the user-mode implementation of View-OS. If you want to allow completely user-mode disk images mounting (with no kernel/superuser support at all), take a look at umview-mod-umfuseext2 and its dependencies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fuseext2

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

You can also use apt command to install fuseext2.

sudo apt -y install fuseext2

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

sudo aptitude install fuseext2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mount.fuse-ext2 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.