ical command not found

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

Introduction

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

ical: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ical: command not found

Solutions to ical: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ical is provided by itools package.

itools is:

The itools is a collection of command line tools that mimics the development of the underlying ITL library (libitl) and is meant to always give the end-user simple means to access its functions. The available tools are:

  • ical: Display a Hijri calendar.
  • idate: Multi method Hijri/Gregorian date converter.
  • ipraytime: Prayer times and Qibla calculator and schedule table generator.
  • ireminder: Prayer time reminder Perl script.

This package is part of the Islamic Tools and Libraries project.

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

sudo apt-get -y install itools

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

You can also use apt command to install itools.

sudo apt -y install itools

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

sudo aptitude install itools

Summary

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