aspell command not found

Introduction

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

aspell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aspell: command not found

Solutions to aspell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu aspell is provided by aspell package.

aspell is:

GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aspell

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

You can also use apt command to install aspell.

sudo apt -y install aspell

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

sudo aptitude install aspell

Summary

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