mtp-hotplug command not found

Introduction

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

mtp-hotplug: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mtp-hotplug: command not found

Solutions to mtp-hotplug: command not found

How To Fix mtp-hotplug: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mtp-hotplug is provided by mtp-tools package.

mtp-tools is:

libmtp is a library for communicating with MTP aware devices in POSIX compliant operating systems. It implements MTP Basic, the subset proposed for standardization.

The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.

This package contains tools for communicating with MTP devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mtp-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install mtp-tools.

sudo apt -y install mtp-tools

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

sudo aptitude install mtp-tools

Summary

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