colorit command not found

Introduction

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

colorit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: colorit: command not found

Solutions to colorit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu colorit is provided by dict package.

dict is:

This package provides a client application to query a dictd server. The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or accessed through the network.

The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf.

Queries may be customized by numerous command line options, including specifying the database(s) to be queried and the search strategy to be used.

This package also provides dictl, which allows using UTF-8 encoded dictionaries with terminals that do not support UTF-8.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dict

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

You can also use apt command to install dict.

sudo apt -y install dict

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

sudo aptitude install dict

Summary

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