filterm command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix filterm command not found error message

Introduction

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

filterm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: filterm: command not found

In Ubuntu filterm is provided by konwert package.

konwert is:

`konwert’ is yet another charset converter. Some particular features are:

one-to-many conversions
context-dependent conversions
approximations of some unavailable characters
(as a result) ability to transcript e.g. Russian Cyrillic into Polish phonetic equivalent

`filterm’ applies filter conversion to a terminal’s I/O, to get on-the-fly charset conversion, and customized input methods.

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

sudo apt-get -y install konwert

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

You can also use apt command to install konwert.

sudo apt -y install konwert

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

sudo aptitude install konwert

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