dictfmt command not found

Introduction

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

dictfmt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dictfmt: command not found

Solutions to dictfmt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dictfmt is provided by dictfmt package.

dictfmt is:

This package provides dictfmt. This utility can convert an input file to a dictionary database that conforms to the DICT protocol, and create a corresponding index file.

The package also provides dictunformat, which creates a raw database from a dictionary index and a dictionary database.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dictfmt

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

You can also use apt command to install dictfmt.

sudo apt -y install dictfmt

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

sudo aptitude install dictfmt

Summary

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