Ubuntu – In Ubuntu, xdg-open command is not working

14.04xdg-open

I'm new with Ubuntu, and I read in another thread that to open a file in the default editor (gedit for me), I need to run xdg-open, but for some reason, when I run the command xdg-open app.js I'm getting a bash: xdg-open: command not found notification. Why is it?

Following a request from a comment, the output of echo $PATH is :

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/efiminzer/.local/bin:/home/efiminzer/bin

Best Answer

Install/reinstall the package xdg-utils:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xdg-utils

/usr/bin/xdg-open is part of this package.

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