hime-message command not found

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

Introduction

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

hime-message: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hime-message: command not found

Solutions to hime-message: command not found

How To Fix hime-message: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu hime-message is provided by hime package.

hime is:

HIME Input Method Editor is a input method platform, which is forked from the famous gcin input method.

To use HIME, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are:

  • hime-gtk2-immodule for GTK2
  • hime-gtk3-immodule for GTK3
  • hime-qt5-immodule for Qt5

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

sudo apt-get -y install hime

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

You can also use apt command to install hime.

sudo apt -y install hime

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

sudo aptitude install hime

Summary

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