fcitx-fbterm-helper command not found

Introduction

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

fcitx-fbterm-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fcitx-fbterm-helper: command not found

Solutions to fcitx-fbterm-helper: command not found

How To Fix fcitx-fbterm-helper: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fcitx-fbterm-helper is provided by fcitx-frontend-fbterm package.

fcitx-frontend-fbterm is:

Fcitx is a input method framework with extension support, which provides an interface for entering characters of different scripts in applications using a variety of mapping systems.

It offers a pleasant and modern experience, with intuitive graphical configuration tools and customizable skins and mapping tables. It is highly modularized and extensible, with GTK+ 2/3 and Qt4 IM Modules, support for UIs based on Fbterm, pure Xlib, GTK+, or KDE, and a developer-friendly API.

This package provides the FbTerm frontend, which is recommended for users who does not use X.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fcitx-frontend-fbterm

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

You can also use apt command to install fcitx-frontend-fbterm.

sudo apt -y install fcitx-frontend-fbterm

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

sudo aptitude install fcitx-frontend-fbterm

Summary

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