footclient command not found

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

Introduction

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

footclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: footclient: command not found

Solutions to footclient: command not found

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

In Ubuntu footclient is provided by foot package.

foot is:

The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features

  • Fast
  • Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
  • Wayland native
  • DE agnostic
  • User configurable font fallback
  • On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
  • Scrollback search
  • Color emoji support
  • Server/daemon mode
  • Multi-seat
  • Synchronized Updates support
  • Sixel image support

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

sudo apt-get -y install foot

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

You can also use apt command to install foot.

sudo apt -y install foot

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

sudo aptitude install foot

Summary

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