nautilus-filename-repairer command not found

Introduction

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

nautilus-filename-repairer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nautilus-filename-repairer: command not found

Solutions to nautilus-filename-repairer: command not found

How To Fix nautilus-filename-repairer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nautilus-filename-repairer is provided by nautilus-filename-repairer package.

nautilus-filename-repairer is:

This is a Nautilus extension which repairs filename which uses wrong encoding in Nautilus. This extension provides the context menu for any file whose filename uses wrong encoding, so that you cannot read the filename in Nautilus.

You can find a candidate for filename in context menu or submenu. This extension also provides a decoded name for URL encoded filename.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nautilus-filename-repairer

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

You can also use apt command to install nautilus-filename-repairer.

sudo apt -y install nautilus-filename-repairer

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

sudo aptitude install nautilus-filename-repairer

Summary

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