kakasi-config command not found

Introduction

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

kakasi-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kakasi-config: command not found

Solutions to kakasi-config: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kakasi-config is provided by libkakasi2-dev package.

libkakasi2-dev is:

This package provides header files and static libraries for library version of KAKASI.

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

(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 libkakasi2-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libkakasi2-dev.

sudo apt -y install libkakasi2-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libkakasi2-dev

Summary

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