ydpdict command not found

Introduction

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

ydpdict: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ydpdict: command not found

Solutions to ydpdict: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ydpdict is provided by ydpdict package.

ydpdict is:

This is an ncurses interface to the Collins English-Polish/Polish-English and/or Langenscheidt German-Polish/Polish-German dictionaries distributed by Young Digital Planet. It can also play the pronunciation samples if the CD is available.

This package is only the interface, it does not contain the dictionary files itself. To use it, you need a copy of a dictionary from YDP.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ydpdict

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

You can also use apt command to install ydpdict.

sudo apt -y install ydpdict

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

sudo aptitude install ydpdict

Summary

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