yyt command not found

Introduction

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

yyt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yyt: command not found

Solutions to yyt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu yyt is provided by yiyantang package.

yiyantang is:

yyt is a pseudo-tty program that converts Chinese terminal output encoded in GB/BIG5 to a preset encoding automatically. It is useful for users who have to work with multiple Chinese encoding in console applications. Now it also converts input to the incoming encoding if the incoming encoding is set explicitly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yiyantang

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

You can also use apt command to install yiyantang.

sudo apt -y install yiyantang

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

sudo aptitude install yiyantang

Summary

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