pinyin command not found

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

Introduction

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

pinyin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pinyin: command not found

In Ubuntu pinyin is provided by golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev package.

golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev is:

This package provides golang chinese pinyin conversion library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev.

sudo apt -y install golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev

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

sudo aptitude install golang-github-mozillazg-go-pinyin-dev

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