sfconv command not found

Introduction

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

sfconv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfconv: command not found

Solutions to sfconv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfconv is provided by teckit package.

teckit is:

TECkit is a toolkit for encoding conversions. It offers a simple format for describing the mapping between legacy 8-bit encodings and Unicode, and a set of utilities based on such descriptions for converting text between 8-bit and Unicode encodings.

It also includes a compiler for a mapping description language that allows for bidirectional conversion description (i.e. the same description is used for conversion to and from Unicode).

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

sudo apt-get -y install teckit

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

You can also use apt command to install teckit.

sudo apt -y install teckit

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

sudo aptitude install teckit

Summary

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