mputil_smart command not found

Introduction

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

mputil_smart: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mputil_smart: command not found

Solutions to mputil_smart: command not found

How To Fix mputil_smart: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mputil_smart is provided by mplinuxman package.

mplinuxman is:

Mplinuxman is a file manager program for the Mpman F60/F50 USB portable MP3 player, for Linux. It lets you send/receive files to your MP3 player using a graphical user interface (Gtk2) and features playlists, ID3 tags on the player and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mplinuxman

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

You can also use apt command to install mplinuxman.

sudo apt -y install mplinuxman

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

sudo aptitude install mplinuxman

Summary

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