addwords command not found

Introduction

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

addwords: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: addwords: command not found

Solutions to addwords: command not found

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

In Ubuntu addwords is provided by canna-utils package.

canna-utils is:

Canna provides a unified user interface for Japanese input. It is based on a client-server model and supports automatic kana-to-kanji conversion.

It supports multiple clients (including kinput2 and canuum), and allows them all to work in the same way, sharing customization files, romaji-to-kana conversion rules and conversion dictionaries.

This package provides client programs for Canna.

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

sudo apt-get -y install canna-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install canna-utils.

sudo apt -y install canna-utils

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

sudo aptitude install canna-utils

Summary

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