po4a-translate command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix po4a-translate command not found error message

Introduction

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

po4a-translate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: po4a-translate: command not found

Solutions to po4a-translate: command not found

How To Fix po4a-translate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu po4a-translate is provided by po4a package.

po4a is:

po4a eases the translation of documentation and other textual document. Even more interestingly, it makes it easy to maintain these translations when the original document changes. This is done by using the gettext tools in this new domain.

This package contains the main libraries of po4a, and the necessary sub-modules to handle the following formats:

  • Dia: uncompressed Dia diagrams.
  • INI: the INI format
  • KernelHelp: Help messages of each kernel compilation option.
  • LaTeX: generic TeX or LaTeX format.
  • Man: either roff or mdoc format.
  • POD: Perl documentation format.
  • SGML: either DebianDoc or DocBook DTD.
  • RubyDoc: Ruby documentation format.
  • Texinfo: the info page format.
  • XML: very configurable (preconfigured for DocBook, XHTML, Guide, WML).
  • Yaml: Yaml documents.

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

sudo apt-get -y install po4a

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

You can also use apt command to install po4a.

sudo apt -y install po4a

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

sudo aptitude install po4a

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix po4a-translate command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.