stardict command not found

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

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.