input-pad command not found

Introduction

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

input-pad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: input-pad: command not found

Solutions to input-pad: command not found

How To Fix input-pad: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu input-pad is provided by input-pad package.

input-pad is:

The input pad is a tool to send a character to text applications when the corresponging button is pressed. It provides the GTK+ based GUI and can send characters when the GTK+ buttons are pressed.

This package contains a standalone application.

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

sudo apt-get -y install input-pad

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

You can also use apt command to install input-pad.

sudo apt -y install input-pad

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

sudo aptitude install input-pad

Summary

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