install-keymap command not found

Introduction

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

install-keymap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: install-keymap: command not found

Solutions to install-keymap: command not found

How To Fix install-keymap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu install-keymap is provided by console-common package.

console-common is:

This package contains the install-keymap(8) utility, which is the recommended tool to specify a boot-time keymap to the system, as well as tools for internal use of keymap-providing packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install console-common

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

You can also use apt command to install console-common.

sudo apt -y install console-common

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

sudo aptitude install console-common

Summary

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