ts-edit command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ts-edit command not found error message

Introduction

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

ts-edit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ts-edit: command not found

Solutions to ts-edit: command not found

How To Fix ts-edit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ts-edit is provided by gcin package.

gcin is:

gcin is a GTK+ based input method which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. However, it is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and many other languages.

To use gcin, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are:

gcin-gtk2-immodule for GTK2
gcin-gtk3-immodule for GTK3
gcin-qt5-immodule for Qt5

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

sudo apt-get -y install gcin

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

You can also use apt command to install gcin.

sudo apt -y install gcin

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

sudo aptitude install gcin

Summary

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