showinfilemanager command not found

Introduction

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

showinfilemanager: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: showinfilemanager: command not found

Solutions to showinfilemanager: command not found

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

In Ubuntu showinfilemanager is provided by python3-showinfilemanager package.

python3-showinfilemanager is:

The point is not to open the files, but to select them in the file manager, thereby highlighting the files and allowing the user to quickly do something with them.

Functions when called from the command line or within a Python 3 script. Cross- platform, it supports 19 file managers, and works within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) versions 1 and 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-showinfilemanager

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-showinfilemanager

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

sudo aptitude install python3-showinfilemanager

Summary

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