gdlpp command not found

Introduction

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

gdlpp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gdlpp: command not found

Solutions to gdlpp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gdlpp is provided by grcompiler package.

grcompiler is:

SILGraphite is a system that can be used to create and use “smart fonts” capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors, such as: contextual shaping, ligatures, reordering, split glyphs, bidirectionality, stacking diacritics and complex positioning.

This library was designed and developed by the NRSI (Non-Roman Script Initiative) within SIL International (www.sil.org) to act as a complement to other smart font rendering technologies with limited practical local extensibility. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of a very large number of “minority language” communities for local extensibility of complex script behaviors.

The behavior of the SILGraphite rendering engine for a given writing system is specified through extra tables added to a TrueType font. These tables are generated by compiling a GDL (Graphite Description Language) source file into a font using grcompiler.

This package contains the graphite compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install grcompiler

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

You can also use apt command to install grcompiler.

sudo apt -y install grcompiler

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

sudo aptitude install grcompiler

Summary

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