convmv command not found

Introduction

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

convmv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: convmv: command not found

Solutions to convmv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu convmv is provided by convmv package.

convmv is:

convmv can convert a single filename, a directory tree or all files on a filesystem to a different encoding. It only converts the encoding of filenames, not files contents. A special feature of convmv is that it also takes care of symlinks: the encoding of the symlink’s target will be converted if the symlink itself is being converted.

It is also possible to convert directories to UTF-8 which are already partially UTF-8 encoded.

Keywords: rename, move

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

sudo apt-get -y install convmv

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

You can also use apt command to install convmv.

sudo apt -y install convmv

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

sudo aptitude install convmv

Summary

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