send2trash command not found

Introduction

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

send2trash: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: send2trash: command not found

Solutions to send2trash: command not found

How To Fix send2trash: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu send2trash is provided by python3-send2trash package.

python3-send2trash is:

This module sends a file to the trash using either the Glib system for handling a desktop trash file or its own home-grown system if python3-gi is not installed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-send2trash

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-send2trash.

sudo apt -y install python3-send2trash

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

sudo aptitude install python3-send2trash

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix send2trash command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.