xsunpinyin-preferences command not found

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

Introduction

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

xsunpinyin-preferences: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xsunpinyin-preferences: command not found

In Ubuntu xsunpinyin-preferences is provided by xsunpinyin package.

xsunpinyin is:

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.

This package provides a XIM server with SunPinyin input method.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xsunpinyin

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

You can also use apt command to install xsunpinyin.

sudo apt -y install xsunpinyin

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

sudo aptitude install xsunpinyin

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