shim command not found

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

Introduction

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

shim: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shim: command not found

Solutions to shim: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shim is provided by libfpm-helper0 package.

libfpm-helper0 is:

mono-fpm-server contains the backend for FPM. It lets you run ASP.NET web applications via HTTP servers such as Lighttpd or Apache. The FastCGI webserver shouldbe configured to run fastcgi-mono-server to parse and compile the aspx code.

This package contains a helper library needed by mono-fpm-server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfpm-helper0

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

You can also use apt command to install libfpm-helper0.

sudo apt -y install libfpm-helper0

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

sudo aptitude install libfpm-helper0

Summary

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