jconv command not found

Introduction

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

jconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jconv: command not found

Solutions to jconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jconv is provided by libjconv-bin package.

libjconv-bin is:

This library provide Japanese Code Conversion capability based on iconv. It is based by application to enlarge number of supported encoding. It is not only for Japanese people, it is used as helper in sylpheed mailer.

This package contains the jconv program which does conversions between encodings using libjconv.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libjconv-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libjconv-bin.

sudo apt -y install libjconv-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libjconv-bin

Summary

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