omegat command not found

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

Introduction

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

omegat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: omegat: command not found

Solutions to omegat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu omegat is provided by omegat package.

omegat is:

OmegaT’s main features are

  • multiple source texts handling, retaining complex folder hierarchies
  • fuzzy matching with other segments in the source file(s) or TMX files from previous projects
  • easy glossary terms management
  • flexible regex-based sentence segmenting (using an SRX-like method)
  • powerful regex-based searches along with the facility to apply a filter to display search results in the editor
  • ability to batch process documents from the command line
  • extended project statistics
  • easy-to-understand documentation and tutorial
  • plugin architecture with separate Lucene stemmer (recognition of inflected forms) and LanguageTool (style and grammar checker) plugins
  • integration with Hunspell for spelling checking
  • simple API to access source/target/selection textual data

OmegaT supports 24 formats, including documentation formats such as OpenDocument, Open XML (MS Office 2007), DocBook and (x)HTML, and also localization formats such as Java properties and PO files. An Okapi plugin can further extend the supported formats, for example to include TTX (TradosTag).

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

sudo apt-get -y install omegat

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

You can also use apt command to install omegat.

sudo apt -y install omegat

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

sudo aptitude install omegat

Summary

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