scim-im-agent command not found

Introduction

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

scim-im-agent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scim-im-agent: command not found

Solutions to scim-im-agent: command not found

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

In Ubuntu scim-im-agent is provided by scim-im-agent package.

scim-im-agent is:

SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) is an input method (IM) platform.

This package provides the IM agent for SCIM. SCIM provides various IM modules for Gtk/clutter program. The IM modules communicate with SCIM through the IM agent.

For more information about SCIM, please see the description of scim package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scim-im-agent

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

You can also use apt command to install scim-im-agent.

sudo apt -y install scim-im-agent

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

sudo aptitude install scim-im-agent

Summary

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