trash-rm command not found

Introduction

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

trash-rm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: trash-rm: command not found

Solutions to trash-rm: command not found

How To Fix trash-rm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu trash-rm is provided by trash-cli package.

trash-cli is:

This package provides a command line interface trashcan utility compliant with the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification. It remembers the name, original path, deletion date, and permissions of each trashed file

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

sudo apt-get -y install trash-cli

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

You can also use apt command to install trash-cli.

sudo apt -y install trash-cli

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

sudo aptitude install trash-cli

Summary

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