pcmanfm command not found
In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pcmanfm command not found error message
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
pcmanfm: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: pcmanfm: command not found
Solutions to pcmanfm: command not found
How To Fix pcmanfm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu pcmanfm is provided by pcmanfm package.
pcmanfm is:
PCMan File Manager is a GTK+ based file manager, featuring:
- Extremely fast and lightweight
- Can be started in one second on normal machine
- Tabbed browsing (similar to Firefox)
- Drag & Drop support
- Files can be dragged among tabs
- Load large directories in reasonable time
- File association support (Default application)
- Basic thumbnail support
- Bookmarks support
- Handles non-UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly
- Provide icon view and detailed list view
- Standard compliant (Follows FreeDesktop.org)
- Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2)
- Support GVFS for auto-mount handling on removable devices
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install pcmanfm
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install pcmanfm.
sudo apt -y install pcmanfm
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install pcmanfm
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix pcmanfm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.