gen_keymap command not found

Introduction

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

gen_keymap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gen_keymap: command not found

Solutions to gen_keymap: command not found

How To Fix gen_keymap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gen_keymap is provided by keymapper package.

keymapper is:

This package implements an alternate way to let a user decide which keyboard map to use. It generates a decision tree and then asks the user to press a couple of keys. Depending on which keycode is returned, the list of possible keyboards is pruned until there is only one left.

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

sudo apt-get -y install keymapper

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

You can also use apt command to install keymapper.

sudo apt -y install keymapper

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

sudo aptitude install keymapper

Summary

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