skk command not found

Introduction

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

skk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: skk: command not found

Solutions to skk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu skk is provided by libskk-utils package.

libskk-utils is:

Libskk is a library that provides GObject-based interface of Japanese input methods. Currently it supports SKK (Simple Kana Kanji) with various typing rules including romaji-to-kana, AZIK, ACT, TUT-Code, T-Code, and NICOLA.

This package provides the skk tool that reads key sequences from the standard input and converts them to Japanese text according to SKK Japanese input method (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libskk-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libskk-utils.

sudo apt -y install libskk-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libskk-utils

Summary

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