im-config command not found

Introduction

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

im-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: im-config: command not found

Solutions to im-config: command not found

How To Fix im-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu im-config is provided by im-config package.

im-config is:

im-config package provides the framework to configure and to switch the input method. This input method is the essential mechanism for Japanese, Chinese and Korean (CJK) languages to enter their non-ASCII native characters.

Many modern input methods such as IBus support not only one of these CJK languages but support almost all languages simultaneously by dynamically switching keyboard modes with GUI helper program.

By installing this package, the most desirable input method and its backend conversion engine are automatically configured with both the X Window System Input Method (XIM), GTK input method module, Qt input method module, and clutter input method module.

You can further customize your input method with ‘im-config’ command.

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

sudo apt-get -y install im-config

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

You can also use apt command to install im-config.

sudo apt -y install im-config

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

sudo aptitude install im-config

Summary

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