dirconv command not found

Introduction

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

dirconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dirconv: command not found

Solutions to dirconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dirconv is provided by conv-tools package.

conv-tools is:

The mixconv utility reads a mixed-encoding text file, analyzes each line to determine whether it is in 7-bit ASCII, an 8-bit encoding, UTF-8 or WTF-8, converts everything to UTF-8 and prints the result to standard output.

The dirconv utility scans a directory structure, analyzes each file and directory name to determine whether it is in 7-bit ASCII, an 8-bit encoding, UTF-8 or WTF-8, converts everything to UTF-8, and renames the files and directories accordingly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install conv-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install conv-tools.

sudo apt -y install conv-tools

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

sudo aptitude install conv-tools

Summary

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