pictor-thumbs command not found

Introduction

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

pictor-thumbs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pictor-thumbs: command not found

Solutions to pictor-thumbs: command not found

How To Fix pictor-thumbs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pictor-thumbs is provided by pictor package.

pictor is:

Pictor is a simple web application for browsing your pictures in a in a filesystem (without a complicated database schema). Pictures are organized in filesystem directories of any depth. Albums are directories that contain pictures. Thumbnails are generated and cached as necessary, and images are dynamically resized on the fly.

Pictor is useful as for low-traffic browsing of your pictures on a local webserver, but is not necessarily recommended for high traffic picture sharing, as Pictor’s dynamic image scaling can be cpu-intensive.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pictor

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

You can also use apt command to install pictor.

sudo apt -y install pictor

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

sudo aptitude install pictor

Summary

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