pcmanx command not found

Introduction

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

pcmanx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pcmanx: command not found

Solutions to pcmanx: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pcmanx is provided by pcmanx-gtk2 package.

pcmanx-gtk2 is:

PCManX is a newly developed GPL’d version of PCMan, a full-featured famous BBS client. It aimed to be an easy-to-use yet full-featured telnet client facilitating BBS browsing with the ability to process double-byte characters. Some handy functions like tabbed-browsing, auto-login and a built-in ANSI editor enabling colored text editing are also provided.

This version is developed with pure gtk2 and xft, thus has much low dependency.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pcmanx-gtk2

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

You can also use apt command to install pcmanx-gtk2.

sudo apt -y install pcmanx-gtk2

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

sudo aptitude install pcmanx-gtk2

Summary

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