kakasi command not found

Introduction

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

kakasi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kakasi: command not found

Solutions to kakasi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kakasi is provided by kakasi package.

kakasi is:

KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji(1) and may be helpful to read Japanese documents.

The name “KAKASI” is the abbreviation of “kanji kana simple inverter” and the inverse of SKK “simple kana kanji converter” which is developed by Masahiko Sato at Tohoku University. The most entries of the kakasi dictionary is derived form the SKK dictionaries. If you have some interests in the naming of “KAKASI”, please consult to Japanese-English dictionary. :-)

(1) “Romaji” is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kakasi

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

You can also use apt command to install kakasi.

sudo apt -y install kakasi

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

sudo aptitude install kakasi

Summary

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