stardict command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
stardict: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: stardict: command not found
Solutions to stardict: command not found
How To Fix stardict: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu stardict is provided by stardict-gtk package.
stardict-gtk is:
StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.
Main features:
- Glob-style pattern matching search
- Fuzzy search
- Working from system tray
- Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
- Pronouncing of the translated words
- Plugins support
- ..and more
This package is compiled without GNOME support and contains only the program of stardict and will be of limited use without the dictionary files. For more information about how to get the dictionary files, please read /usr/share/doc/stardict/README.Debian.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-gtk
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install stardict-gtk.
sudo apt -y install stardict-gtk
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install stardict-gtk
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix stardict command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.