apertium command not found

Introduction

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

apertium: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apertium: command not found

Solutions to apertium: command not found

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

In Ubuntu apertium is provided by apertium package.

apertium is:

An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine, Apertium is initially aimed at related-language pairs.

It uses finite-state transducers for lexical processing, hidden Markov models for part-of-speech tagging, and finite-state based chunking for structural transfer.

The system is largely based upon systems already developed by the Transducens group at the Universitat d’Alacant, such as interNOSTRUM (Spanish-Catalan, http://www.internostrum.com/welcome.php) and Traductor Universia (Spanish-Portuguese, http://traductor.universia.net).

It will be possible to use Apertium to build machine translation systems for a variety of related-language pairs simply providing the linguistic data needed in the right format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apertium

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

You can also use apt command to install apertium.

sudo apt -y install apertium

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

sudo aptitude install apertium

Summary

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