diatheke command not found

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

Introduction

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

diatheke: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: diatheke: command not found

Solutions to diatheke: command not found

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

In Ubuntu diatheke is provided by diatheke package.

diatheke is:

The SWORD Project is an open source, cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Solaris, MacOSX etc.) API/library for Bible software with a constantly growing list of front-ends (GUI, textmode, web-based, etc.) and a library of over 200 text modules.

This package contains a command line utility for SWORD, allowing bible browsing and searching. This tool is used mostly only for library testing. Nicer front-ends are Xiphos (Gtk), Bibletime (Qt) and others.

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

sudo apt-get -y install diatheke

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

You can also use apt command to install diatheke.

sudo apt -y install diatheke

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

sudo aptitude install diatheke

Summary

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