scim command not found

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

Introduction

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

scim: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scim: command not found

Solutions to scim: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scim is provided by scim package.

scim is:

Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) is an input method (IM) platform. Input methods are needed to enter complex characters in many non-latin languages. SCIM provides a common platform for various plugin modules and independent IM programs, as well as a set of modules and programs on its own. It is highly modularized and exposes abstract interfaces, so that plugin modules with different functions can easily communicate with each other. The currently supported module types are configuration, IM engine, front end, filter, and setup GUI.

SCIM achieves the communication between IM engines and front ends through both shared library linking and server/client mode. It supports XIM protocol, as well as GTK+ IM module.

This package is the main binary package of SCIM. It includes: the main program scim (GTK+ based) and other support programs; simple configuration module, X11 front end module, rawcode IM engine module, simplified/traditional Chinese conversion filter module, and their corresponding setup GUI modules; GTK+ panel and its setup GUI module; and a GTK+ based setup tool.

SCIM is a well accepted platform and features various input method engines for many languages. In Debian you can find the following separately packaged IMs useful: scim-tables-{additional,ja,ko,zh}, scim-pinyin, scim-uim, scim-m17n, scim-chewing, scim-anthy, scim-canna, scim-prime, and scim-skk. GTK+ users would also find package scim-gtk-immodule useful for GTK+ IM module support.

For development on SCIM platform, please see the description of scim-dev package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scim

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

You can also use apt command to install scim.

sudo apt -y install scim

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

sudo aptitude install scim

Summary

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