fbi command not found

Introduction

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

fbi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fbi: command not found

Solutions to fbi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fbi is provided by fbi package.

fbi is:

This is an image viewer for Linux frame buffer devices. It has built-in support for a number of common image file formats. For unknown files, it tries to use convert from the ImageMagick package as an external converter. It also includes fbgs, a Postscript and PDF viewer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbi

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

You can also use apt command to install fbi.

sudo apt -y install fbi

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

sudo aptitude install fbi

Summary

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