sjislatex command not found

Introduction

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

sjislatex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sjislatex: command not found

Solutions to sjislatex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sjislatex is provided by latex-cjk-japanese package.

latex-cjk-japanese is:

CJK is a macro package for LaTeX. This package gives you the possibility to include Japanese text in your (La)TeX documents. Install latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab for pretty printing.

Install hbf-kanji48 if you want to use bitmap fonts in your documents.

Have a look at latex-cjk-common for a more detailed description.

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

sudo apt-get -y install latex-cjk-japanese

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

You can also use apt command to install latex-cjk-japanese.

sudo apt -y install latex-cjk-japanese

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

sudo aptitude install latex-cjk-japanese

Summary

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