nautilus-sendto command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nautilus-sendto command not found error message

Introduction

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

nautilus-sendto: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nautilus-sendto: command not found

In Ubuntu nautilus-sendto is provided by nautilus-sendto package.

nautilus-sendto is:

The Nautilus Send To plugin provides the Nautilus file manager with a context menu component for quickly sending files via email.

Supported email clients are Evolution, Thunderbird/Icedove, balsa and Sylpheed/Claws.

Nautilus Send To also provides the option of compressing the files (tar.bz2, tar.gz, or zip) before sending.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nautilus-sendto

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

You can also use apt command to install nautilus-sendto.

sudo apt -y install nautilus-sendto

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

sudo aptitude install nautilus-sendto

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