clipit.real command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix clipit.real command not found error message

Introduction

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

clipit.real: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clipit.real: command not found

Solutions to clipit.real: command not found

How To Fix clipit.real: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu clipit.real is provided by clipit package.

clipit is:

Clipboard manager with features such as:

  • Save history of your last copied items
  • Search through the history
  • Global hotkeys for most used functions
  • Execute actions with clipboard items
  • Exclude specific items from history

ClipIt was forked from Parcellite and adds many bugfixes and features to the project.

Diodon is a replacement for ClipIt, which is no longer supported.

This package may be safely removed after the migration to Diodon is complete.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clipit

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

You can also use apt command to install clipit.

sudo apt -y install clipit

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

sudo aptitude install clipit

Summary

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