textconv command not found

Introduction

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

textconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: textconv: command not found

Solutions to textconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu textconv is provided by liballegro4-dev package.

liballegro4-dev is:

This package contains the development headers for the Allegro library.

Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liballegro4-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install liballegro4-dev.

sudo apt -y install liballegro4-dev

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

sudo aptitude install liballegro4-dev

Summary

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