In Ubuntu, xdg-open command is not working

Question

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

What's the exact error message? Copy/paste it into your question as an edit — Thomas Ward, Dec 01 '15 at 19:23
[Edit] your question and add the output of `whoami; groups; stat /usr/bin/xdg-open; apt-cache policy xdg-utils; dpkg -L xdg-utils | grep bin` — A.B., Dec 01 '15 at 21:12

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 19:27

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Install/reinstall the package xdg-utils:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xdg-utils

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

answered Dec 01 '15 at 19:27

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I've installed reinstalled the package and still the same error message – Efi Dec 01 '15 at 19:36

In Ubuntu, xdg-open command is not working

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