nuspell command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix nuspell command not found error message

Introduction

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

nuspell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nuspell: command not found

Solutions to nuspell: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nuspell is provided by nuspell package.

nuspell is:

Nuspell is a free and open source spell checker that is written in modern C++. It is designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding.

Main features are:

  • Full unicode support backed by ICU
  • Backward compatibility with Hunspell dictionary file format
  • Twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
  • Support complex compounds (for example, Hungarian, German and Dutch)
  • Support language specific features (for example, special casing of Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
  • Handle conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.

This package contains the command-line program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nuspell

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

You can also use apt command to install nuspell.

sudo apt -y install nuspell

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

sudo aptitude install nuspell

Summary

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