shotwell command not found

Introduction

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

shotwell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shotwell: command not found

Solutions to shotwell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shotwell is provided by shotwell package.

shotwell is:

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos, pictures, images and videos from disk or camera. Shotwell can organize them in collections and in other various ways. The viewer shows them in full-window or fullscreen mode and presents them as galleries or slideshows. The integrated editor can rotate, flip, crop and tag the photos, adjust the colors und remove red eyes. Export is possible to facebook, Flickr or Youtube to share with others. It is able to manage a lot of image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF and Raw CR2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shotwell

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

You can also use apt command to install shotwell.

sudo apt -y install shotwell

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

sudo aptitude install shotwell

Summary

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