fcitx command not found

Introduction

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

fcitx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fcitx: command not found

Solutions to fcitx: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fcitx is provided by fcitx-bin package.

fcitx-bin is:

Fcitx is an input method framework with extension support, which provides an interface for entering characters of different scripts in applications using a variety of mapping systems.

It offers a pleasant and modern experience, with intuitive graphical configuration tools and customizable skins and mapping tables. It is highly modularized and extensible, with GTK+ 2/3 and Qt5 IM Modules, support for UIs based on Fbterm, pure Xlib, GTK+, or KDE, and a developer-friendly API.

This package provides the essential executable binaries. If you are looking for a working input experience, please install the package “fcitx” instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fcitx-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install fcitx-bin.

sudo apt -y install fcitx-bin

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

sudo aptitude install fcitx-bin

Summary

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