charmap command not found

Introduction

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

charmap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: charmap: command not found

Solutions to charmap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu charmap is provided by gucharmap package.

gucharmap is:

This program allows you to browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the installed fonts, and to examine their detailed properties. It is an easy way to find the character you might only know by its Unicode name or code point.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gucharmap

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

You can also use apt command to install gucharmap.

sudo apt -y install gucharmap

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

sudo aptitude install gucharmap

Summary

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