malsym command not found

Introduction

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

malsym: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: malsym: command not found

Solutions to malsym: command not found

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

In Ubuntu malsym is provided by malaga-bin package.

malaga-bin is:

Malaga is a system for implementing natural language analysers: both grammars and morphologies can be created. You will not be needing this package if you do not intend to do research on computer linguistics or develop computer programs that need to do advanced processing of natural languages.

This package contains a set of standalone programs that can be used in developing and playing with grammars and morphologies. One of the programs uses a Tk/TCL module for displaying graphical analysis trees.

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

sudo apt-get -y install malaga-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install malaga-bin.

sudo apt -y install malaga-bin

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

sudo aptitude install malaga-bin

Summary

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