dictunzip command not found

Introduction

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

dictunzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dictunzip: command not found

Solutions to dictunzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dictunzip is provided by dictzip package.

dictzip is:

This package provides a utility to compress dictionary databases with the LZ77 algorithm in a manner which is completely compatible with gzip(1), but using an extension that allows for random access to chunks of about 57kB without the overhead of decompressing the entire file.

This package also includes dictunzip, to decompress dictzipped files, and dictzcat, for viewing dictzipped files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dictzip

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

You can also use apt command to install dictzip.

sudo apt -y install dictzip

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

sudo aptitude install dictzip

Summary

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