fcitx5-remote command not found

Introduction

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

fcitx5-remote: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fcitx5-remote: command not found

Solutions to fcitx5-remote: command not found

How To Fix fcitx5-remote: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fcitx5-remote is provided by fcitx5 package.

fcitx5 is:

Fcitx5 is the next generation of fcitx input method framework. It provides pleasant and modern input experience with intuitive graphical configuration tools. The framework is highly extensible with support for GTK+ and Qt toolkits, D-Bus interfaces, a large variety of desktop environments and a developer-friendly API.

Some of its new features include support of both Wayland and Xorg and the ability to mimic IBus Input Method Framework in order to provide better compatibility across different Linux distributions and desktop environments.

This package provides core fcitx5 framework files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fcitx5

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

You can also use apt command to install fcitx5.

sudo apt -y install fcitx5

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

sudo aptitude install fcitx5

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fcitx5-remote command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.