fbterm command not found

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

Introduction

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

fbterm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fbterm: command not found

In Ubuntu fbterm is provided by fbterm package.

fbterm is:

FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device.

Features include:

mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device
select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
record scrollback history for every window
auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
switch between configurable additional text encoding with hot keys on the fly
copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbterm

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

You can also use apt command to install fbterm.

sudo apt -y install fbterm

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

sudo aptitude install fbterm

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