tran command not found

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

Introduction

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

tran: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tran: command not found

Solutions to tran: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tran is provided by tran package.

tran is:

This tool lets you transliterate, with a ¼-hearted attempt at transcription, both ways between Latin and a number of other writing scripts. Thus for example the word “Debian” is “Дэбян” in Cyrillic or “Δεβιαν” in Greek. Conversion to Latin lets you understand foreign text (at least names if not meaning), conversion from Latin is for fun, i10n testing, etc.

Supported scripts:

  • latin
  • cyrillic
  • greek
  • devanagari
  • futhark (runes)
  • hiragana
  • katakana
  • old italic
  • gothic (Ulfilas’ — you may be looking for fraktur instead)
  • georgian (mkhedruli)
  • mtavruli (also Georgian)
  • armenian
  • ascii (Latin without diacritics or digraphs)
  • fullwidth (double-width ASCII)
  • smallcaps
  • Unicode Plane 1 “math” characters: bold, italic, bold italic, script, bold script, fraktur, double-struck, bold fraktur, sans-serif, sans-serif bold, sans-serif italic, sans-serif bold italic, monospace
  • enclosed alphanumerics: circled, parenthesized, squared, negative circled, negative squared, regional indicators

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

sudo apt-get -y install tran

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

You can also use apt command to install tran.

sudo apt -y install tran

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

sudo aptitude install tran

Summary

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