Fusermount: fuse device not found, try ‘modprobe fuse’ first

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I am running an instance on gcloud compute engine. I need to mount a Google storage bucket (which belongs to a different project) to my instance. The instance runs on Debian Wheezy. I have installed gcc, fuse, gcsfuse. But when I tried to mount the bucket:

$ gcsfuse bucket-name /mnt/bucket-name

I got the error:
stderr:
fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

Tried "modprobe fuse", I got error:
-bash: modprobe: command not found

Anyone knows what the problem might be, or anyone has encountered the same issue? Any thoughts, comments, help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

I have resolved the issue with an upgrade to Jessie and then installed gcsfuse following the instructions here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse/blob/master/docs/installing.md