fbreader command not found

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

Introduction

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

fbreader: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fbreader: command not found

In Ubuntu fbreader is provided by fbreader package.

fbreader is:

FBReader is an e-book reader.

Main features:

supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker, palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM’ed mobipocket, plain text, epub, eReader
reads directly from tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 archives (you can have several books in one archive)
supports a structured view of your e-book collection
automatically determines encodings
automatically generates a table of contents
keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all open books between runs
automatic hyphenation (patterns for several languages are included)
searching and downloading books from www.feedbooks.com and www.litres.ru
partial CSS support for epub files

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbreader

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

You can also use apt command to install fbreader.

sudo apt -y install fbreader

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

sudo aptitude install fbreader

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