make-lingua-identify-language command not found

Introduction

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

make-lingua-identify-language: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: make-lingua-identify-language: command not found

Solutions to make-lingua-identify-language: command not found

How To Fix make-lingua-identify-language: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu make-lingua-identify-language is provided by liblingua-identify-perl package.

liblingua-identify-perl is:

Lingua::Identify identifies the language a given string or file is written in. Lingua-Identify is a modular, portable, unicode-compatible method of language detection with support for 33 languages (and growing), and 4 methods of language identification. It has support for large inputs by utilizing only a section of the file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblingua-identify-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install liblingua-identify-perl.

sudo apt -y install liblingua-identify-perl

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

sudo aptitude install liblingua-identify-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix make-lingua-identify-language command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.