fqterm.bin command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fqterm.bin command not found error message

Introduction

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

fqterm.bin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fqterm.bin: command not found

Solutions to fqterm.bin: command not found

How To Fix fqterm.bin: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fqterm.bin is provided by fqterm package.

fqterm is:

FQTerm is one of the most widely used BBS client in China, it supports Telnet/SSH1/SSH2 protocols and can process ANSI control sequences. It can be used to login BBS sites or *NIX hosts.

Almost all the BBSes in Greater China Region are in BIG5 or GBK encoding. So FQTerm only support these two encodings and ASCII.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fqterm

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

You can also use apt command to install fqterm.

sudo apt -y install fqterm

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

sudo aptitude install fqterm

Summary

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