kanjidraw command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix kanjidraw command not found error message

Introduction

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

kanjidraw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kanjidraw: command not found

In Ubuntu kanjidraw is provided by kanjidraw package.

kanjidraw is:

kanjidraw is a simple Python library + GUI for matching (the strokes of a) handwritten kanji against its database.

You can use the GUI to draw and subsequently select a kanji from the list of probable matches, which will then be copied to the clipboard.

The database is based on KanjiVG and the algorithms are based on the Kanji draw Android app.

This package provides the GUI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kanjidraw

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

You can also use apt command to install kanjidraw.

sudo apt -y install kanjidraw

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

sudo aptitude install kanjidraw

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