dh_translations command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dh_translations command not found error message

Introduction

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

dh_translations: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dh_translations: command not found

In Ubuntu dh_translations is provided by dh-translations package.

dh-translations is:

This package provides a debhelper extension to perform common translation related operations during package build:

Try to build a current PO template.
Remove inline translations from *.desktop, *.server, *.schemas, and *.policy files and replace them with a link to the gettext domain, so that strings in them will get translated at runtime from *.mo files. This allows language packs to ship updated translations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dh-translations

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

You can also use apt command to install dh-translations.

sudo apt -y install dh-translations

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

sudo aptitude install dh-translations

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