spellintian command not found

Introduction

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

spellintian: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spellintian: command not found

Solutions to spellintian: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spellintian is provided by lintian package.

lintian is:

Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.

This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive.

This version of Lintian is calibrated for Debian Policy version 4.6.0.1.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lintian

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

You can also use apt command to install lintian.

sudo apt -y install lintian

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

sudo aptitude install lintian

Summary

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