nkf command not found

Introduction

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

nkf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nkf: command not found

Solutions to nkf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nkf is provided by nkf package.

nkf is:

Nkf is yet another kanji code converter among networks, hosts and terminals. It converts input kanji code to designated kanji code such as 7-bit JIS, MS-kanji (Shifted-JIS) or EUC.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nkf

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

You can also use apt command to install nkf.

sudo apt -y install nkf

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

sudo aptitude install nkf

Summary

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