dictconv command not found

Introduction

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

dictconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dictconv: command not found

Solutions to dictconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dictconv is provided by dictconv package.

dictconv is:

Dictconv is a small program to convert a dictionary file type in another dictionary file type. Currently, it supports converting from Babylon glossaries, Freedict dictionaries, Sdictionary dictionaries and Stardict dictionaries to DICT dictionaries, plain text dictionaries and StarDict dictionaries. More file types will be added in new versions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dictconv

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

You can also use apt command to install dictconv.

sudo apt -y install dictconv

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

sudo aptitude install dictconv

Summary

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