pynlpl-makefreqlist command not found

Introduction

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

pynlpl-makefreqlist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pynlpl-makefreqlist: command not found

Solutions to pynlpl-makefreqlist: command not found

How To Fix pynlpl-makefreqlist: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pynlpl-makefreqlist is provided by python3-pynlpl package.

python3-pynlpl is:

PyNLPl, pronounced as ‘pineapple’, is a Python library for Natural Language Processing. It contains various modules useful for common, and less common, NLP tasks. PyNLPl can be used for basic tasks such as the extraction of n-grams and frequency lists, and to build simple language models. It also contains complex data types and algorithms. Moreover, it includes parsers for file formats common in NLP (e.g. FoLiA/Giza/Moses/ARPA/Timbl/CQL) and clients to interface with various NLP specific servers. PyNLPl most notably features a very extensive library for working with FoLiA XML (Format for Linguistic Annotation).

This is the Python 3 version.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pynlpl

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pynlpl.

sudo apt -y install python3-pynlpl

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pynlpl

Summary

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