m17n-dump command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix m17n-dump command not found error message

Introduction

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

m17n-dump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: m17n-dump: command not found

In Ubuntu m17n-dump is provided by m17n-lib-bin package.

m17n-lib-bin is:

The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:

The m17n library is an open source software.
The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

This package contains the utilities which use m17n-lib.

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

sudo apt-get -y install m17n-lib-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install m17n-lib-bin.

sudo apt -y install m17n-lib-bin

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

sudo aptitude install m17n-lib-bin

In this tutorial we learn how to fix m17n-dump command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.