dictd command not found

Introduction

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

dictd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dictd: command not found

Solutions to dictd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dictd is provided by dictd package.

dictd is:

This package provides a TCP-based server that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.

Many dictionary databases have been packaged for use with dictd. They are described in the /usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz file.

Either dict-gcide or dict-wn is essential for a useful English language dictionary server. It is strongly recommended that both be installed. If you are interested in computer terminology, it is recommended to install at least dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, or dict-vera.

The client program, dict, is packaged separately and is needed on all machines that will use the server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dictd

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

You can also use apt command to install dictd.

sudo apt -y install dictd

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

sudo aptitude install dictd

Summary

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